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Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)Posted May 12, 2008 17:24 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)Parent article: Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)
Basically, what good product design giveth, Microsoft taketh away. If your engineers are able to provide impressive specs at an impressively low price... MS will ruin it by upping the price of the OS, effectively punishing the manufacturer and their customers for any good job done by the design team. Yes, I can certainly see why the name "Microsoft" is so closely associated with the word "innovation".
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Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica) Posted May 12, 2008 17:38 UTC (Mon) by shadesfox (guest, #28651) [Link] The whole time Microsoft's goals have been clear. They want prices to remain the same, but the hardware is free while the software is the entire cost of the system.
Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica) Posted May 12, 2008 22:08 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link] They want the consumer to perceive that Windows is free and "comes with" the hardware. That illusion is starting to cost them something.
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