[Rant] Microsoft extend their monopolistic behaviours (again) | ANN.lu |
Posted on 11-Aug-2002 13:33 GMT by Cyberwlf | 56 comments View flat View list |
Microsoft have cracked down on retailers trying to sell alternate OS's when they sign a contract to sell Windoze. (This theoretically effecting people selling Amithlon pre-installed, or the likes). Essentially saying... :
(from slashdot.org) "Some Sys Admin sent in an email that he got from Dell which basically says Microsoft will no longer allow Dell to sell PCs without an operating system. " - But if you think this was only Dell, the wording seems to effect all retailers, read article for more information: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/10/1420208.
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Posted by takemehomegrandma on 12-Aug-2002 09:55 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (Samface): In my oppinion, BeOS died because it had no purpose. Sure, it was technically a superb OS, with a very interesting way to handle media streams internally, but it never got the applications and it never got the users. I think they would have succeded much better if they had made sure to port or develop some state of the art applications for a particular purpose, say sequencers and digital audio editing, and then bundled some custom hardware (a computer with midi ports and lots of audio inputs/outputs, perhaps even a USB mixerboard or something) with the OS and that application. Selling a complete solution that offers something more than the existing solutions is definitely one way to go for small niche systems. |
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