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Re: How Microsoft Beat WordPerfect/The Evidence
- To: "Multiple recipients of list" <am-info@essential.org>
- Subject: Re: How Microsoft Beat WordPerfect/The Evidence
- From: Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 97 09:22:51 -0800
In reply to Charles Kelly, NT*Pro's message sent 11/8/97 10:15 AM:
>I really don't think it took the computer manufacturers very long to figure
>out that they could get a much, much better price per unit if they could
>license with Microsoft to pre-install Windows on all the computers they
>sold.
"Figure out?" Microsoft didn't give them an opportunity to figure this
out -- it was mandatory.
Mitch Stone
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