Haiku: BeOS Reborn

[Christopher Chan]

Michael Haney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Except that that isn't a solution - Microsoft sells Windows to manufacturers
>> at _below_ cost.  If you set your retail price that low, you go out of
>> business...  MS can afford to sell their OS cheap (they could afford not to
>> charge at all) because their main profit is in Office, etc.  IBM didn't have
>> that - though _possibly_ they could have done (iirc, they bought Lotus)
>>     
>
> Today Micro$oft is loosing money due to netbooks.  To keep the prices
> of netbooks low Micro$oft has to sell Windows XP and soon Windows 7
> for dirty cheap prices.  They can't afford to have the netbook makers
> go elsewhere because its such a hot market right now.  Netbooks have
> seen massive growth in the past year and analysts say its a trend that
> will continue.
>
> Intel is loosing money on netbooks too.  They keep the price of the
> Atom processors low and got into the fray because they didn't want VIA
> to become another major competitor like AMD.
>
>   


Heh. You have not yet got into the unfair play yet. I remember when the 
Athlon64 almost did not get off the ground because Intel made threats to 
reduce supply of chips to any motherboard manufacturer that dared make 
boards for the new AMD processor. Good thing Asus got the ball rolling 
but in the end Intel did enough damage.