... as long as it's black. (Henry Ford)
The pre-installed PC market remains the most visible aspect of Microsoft's monopoly grip on the desktop market; to all intents and purposes, if you walk into a retail outlet and buy a PC, there is still no alternative to getting one with Windows on it. That's not a market driven by consumer choice.
The news from Dell is interesting; apparently in response to consumer pressure over pre-installed Vista machines, they have had to restore the option of ordering a machine with XP instead. Presumably the only thing which will change that market dynamic would be a withdrawal of support for the superseded release.
Posted by racingsnake
@ 09:31 PM GMT+00:00
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