Re: Windows pricing... (exact figures)

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

In reply to Paul Rickard's message sent 4/15/98 11:21 PM:

>	If anybody has any figures on the average total price for PCs in 1994
>vs. the average total price in 1998, I'd be extremely interested in
>seeing them. Most people would be shocked to know how much Windows adds
>to the total price of a new computer, and even more so to see how the
>percentage of that has risen in the last 4 or 5 years.

We'd have to know the OEM price structure to know that for certain, but 
as I think I mentioned before, this has gone up considerably over the 
past ten years. One thing which is quite certain, however, is that the 
percentage of total cost of a PC represented by the OS is very much 
higher today then it once was.

   Mitch Stone
   Editor, Boycott Microsoft
   http://www.vcnet.com/bms 
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