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But note the phrasing above: “Dell is an important part of Microsoft’s plans…” Better vertical integration without having to pay the full price for ownership, the putative “several billion dollars” would give Microsoft a significant ownership, 10% or 15%. This is completely at odds with the buyout’s supposed intent: Getting out of the PC clone race to the bottom.
Or maybe there’s another story behind Microsoft’s beneficence: The investor syndicate struggles and can’t quite reach the $22B finish line. Microsoft generously — and very publicly — offers to contribute the few missing billions. Investors see Microsoft trying to reattach the PC millstone to their necks — and run away.
Hats off to Steve Ballmer: Microsoft looks generous – without having to spend a dime – and forces Dell keep making PCs.
Yeab, OEMs are being liberated from MS control and MS is running scared as "Windows' Cliff" is getting visibly closer.
MS snatched Nokia back under its tent when the later attempted to use Linux to drive its smart Phones. HP is entering Google's camp and MS is rushing to invest in Dell to leverage control over Dell and apply its pressure on HP.
The ARM broke the Wintel cartel and low cost little devices are eating up the PC market.
Apple IOS and Google Android devices along with Samsung, Asus, and others are leaving Windows behind.
I wonder what is next!
I guess it is too little too late for MS to do anything about the inevitable.
Does anyone dispute the fact that Linux/FOSS has been the enabler and the game changer?
I don't think so.
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MS snatched Nokia back under its tent when the later attempted to use Linux to drive its smart Phones. HP is entering Google's camp and MS is rushing to invest in Dell to leverage control over Dell and apply its pressure on HP.
The ARM broke the Wintel cartel and low cost little devices are eating up the PC market.
Apple IOS and Google Android devices along with Samsung, Asus, and others are leaving Windows behind.
I wonder what is next!
I guess it is too little too late for MS to do anything about the inevitable.
Does anyone dispute the fact that Linux/FOSS has been the enabler and the game changer?
I don't think so.