As the article said, they had to lower prices to help combat the free givaways of Linux going to China from Red Hat, which I’ve been criticizing for years, while Linux pumpers here constantly defended it. Now that Microsoft lowered their prices, and apparently captured the market (as it is clearly a better and more desirable platform with features such as compatibility with typical user applications), you’re somehow surprised? LOL get real, I’ve been telling you forever this was going to happen, the fact you live in some fantasy world where we all rely on some group of leftists to provide software welfare to the worlfd is the fault of your own.
What makes the Chinese market any different from the American market? Are you saying that people can't just get Red Hat (or other distribution) for free in the US?
No, MS fell for the oldest trick in the book. The Chicoms played around with Red Flag long enough to make Gates and Ballmer nervous enough to give away the American store. Clear as glass.
If Linux is so undesirable, why didn't MS just wait and let the Chicoms find out for themselves that it didn't work in practice? (Hint: maybe they knew it would have worked well enough for a poor/developing market that didn't already have a Windows jones.)
> Now that Microsoft lowered their prices, and apparently captured the market (as it is clearly a better and more desirable platform with features such as compatibility with typical user applications), you’re somehow surprised?
Of course not. That's how they've crushed every other competitor they couldn't buy outright.
The interesting time will be when MS gets tired of losing money hand over fist to the Communists, and tries to raise the price back to where they need it to be. That's when the Commies will haul out Red Flag again and threaten to drop Windows. Sure, Windows is more compatible with American user applications, but do you think the Chinese will buy American user applications if they have to pay real money for them? Hell no, they'll use the cheapest things they can get.
MS is in for a shock when they realize they don't have the Commies by the short hairs the way they do the American public.
> LOL get real, I’ve been telling you forever this was going to happen, the fact you live in some fantasy world where we all rely on some group of leftists to provide software welfare to the worlfd is the fault of your own.
You're the loony. I use Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, NetBSD, Solaris, whatever makes sense. I'm not sitting around waiting for RMS to stop blathering about politics, he's a loony too just like you, only hairier (I assume).
It's not about Linux, twit. It's about how Microsoft is selling out America to the Chinese Communists. The Chicoms hold all the cards, and they will ultimately hold Microsoft hostage, just like they now hold all of corporate America hostage because they offered cheap labor, and now own most of our production, tools, etc.
Wake up, GE. Your preciousssss Microsoft is stepping in Commie cowshit way over Ballmer's belly and up to Gate's aviator goggles. I hate to see an American company be so stupid. Especially when they're doing it with the money you and I paid for their products at full price.
Oh, wait, you probably get an employee discount....