My only guess is that the failure of Windows Phone has deeply scarred the company at an emotional level, and internally the failure gets explained away by the fact that Windows Phone came with a price tag, and not the fact that Windows Phone was late to the game and lacked features, apps and UI appeal compared to Android.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft execs think it is important. Why “monetize”? Do they think that the couple of bucks added to the price of a Windows laptop due to the Windows license compared to Chromebooks is that important? It’s not (and yes, it’s a couple of bucks really, Dell and HP don’t exactly pay OEM DSP prices). Did Microsoft ever have an issue selling Windows for a price? No. I never understood this relentless drive for “monetization” via online services that Microsoft is attempting in Windows 10. Blind fanaticism and fetishism of one’s oppressors is a sad thing to witness. If you see anything other than Windows 10 and the occasional Windows 7 install (for backwards compatibility with some esoteric piece of hardware or deprecated software), you should play the lottery because you just found a unicorn.Īs Thom mentioned in the article about Google up above, some people will just blindly defend these indefensible megacorporations for some reason, even as said corporations are stepping all over their defenders. Or, go into any Fortune 500 company or government agency.

If you’re really lucky you’ll find the Apple section where you can get a Mac mini or MacBook Air at $200 over Apple’s own inflated retail price, which is an incentive for you to just go with a Windows machine instead. Ask the sales staff to point you to the section with Linux distros or BSD install discs for sale. Try to find a desktop computer or laptop that ships with anything other than Windows installed. Go to Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Microcenter, or any other big box retailer where computers are sold. “In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices, which is associated with a decrease in social surplus.” ~ What monopoly?…Monopoly is when there are nothing else at all.

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