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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!philipla
- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.061912.18781@microsoft.com>
- Date: 02 Jan 93 06:19:12 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <8236@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec31.165527.20830@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.012623.27317@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan2.012623.27317@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.165527.20830@microsoft.com> philco@microsoft.com (Phillip Cooper) writes:
- >>And again, I say who is forcing the vendors to sell DOS and Windows with
- >>each machine?? Certainly it is not Microsoft. We explicitly offer licensing
- >>agreements that allow them to only pay royalties on copies of the OS which
- >>are actually installed. If anyone is forcing them, it is the 99% of their
- >>customers who *demand* MS-DOS and Windows.
- >
- >OS/2 2.0 preinstalled systems have roughly 10% market share at
- >present, if my estimates are correct. That figure is also growing,
- >much to Microsoft's consternation, I imagine. I suggest you revise
- >your figure downward as long as you're willing to claim that bundling
- >equals customer demand. Methinks not.
- >
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- How much of that 10% is made up of IBM systems? Methinks
- you may be trying to delude the educated readers of this thread.
- Besides, I pulled 99% out of my head - I was trying to make
- a point. From a practical standpoint, the difference between
- 90% and 99% is practically nil.
-
- -Phil
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