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Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage

Richard Plinston

Re: I'm a bit confused

> Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 were killing the PC industry ... now Microsoft is making their own PCs ... screw-um

Microsoft has a policy of increasing its revenue by 'stealing' it from its 'partners'. It seems that it was trying to create an 'XPC' back in the early 00s. This was to have been a .NET based PowerPC (as the XBox was) that would dispense with the need to have OEMs taking all that hardware revenue. This failed to work correctly so they had to throw together Vista to have something to push out the door.

Yes, I think MS plan to have more hardware and become more like Apple with walled garden. They also want to be more like Google with collecting and selling data and advertising.

The OEMs will work out that their loyalty should not be tied entirely to Microsoft and will diversify to avoid being part of the 'death of the PC'.

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