You've always had the choice to install Linux or buy a Mac. That hasn't changed. Neither has peoples' unabated and overwhelming choice of Windows.As others have pointed out, Microsoft is in danger of losing a large share of their current market if they continue to come accross as squeezing the consumers last dollar. If that continues, Linux will probably get a better foothold in the corporate and desktop user market.
The public does have a greed threshold that Microsoft would be wise not to cross.
As others have pointed out, Microsoft is in danger of losing a large share of their current market if they continue to come accross as squeezing the consumers last dollar. If that continues, Linux will probably get a better foothold in the corporate and desktop user market. The public does have a greed threshold that Microsoft would be wise not to cross.
Club, meet head. Your words:
"No doubt about that...but the other half of the market wouldn't bother...they just pay the couple of hundred extra for Windows preloaded."
Or are you retracting them now?