Haiku: BeOS Reborn

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Except that that isn't a solution - Microsoft sells Windows to manufacturers
> at _below_ cost.  If you set your retail price that low, you go out of
> business...  MS can afford to sell their OS cheap (they could afford not to
> charge at all) because their main profit is in Office, etc.  IBM didn't have
> that - though _possibly_ they could have done (iirc, they bought Lotus)

Today Micro$oft is loosing money due to netbooks.  To keep the prices
of netbooks low Micro$oft has to sell Windows XP and soon Windows 7
for dirty cheap prices.  They can't afford to have the netbook makers
go elsewhere because its such a hot market right now.  Netbooks have
seen massive growth in the past year and analysts say its a trend that
will continue.

Intel is loosing money on netbooks too.  They keep the price of the
Atom processors low and got into the fray because they didn't want VIA
to become another major competitor like AMD.

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