Provided the pricing reflects the actual cost differential of the installed OS.
It's not right for a PC manufacturer to tip the ice toward Windows by cutting themselves a higher mark up for what they don't install on boxes. Yet that's what MSFT leans on them to do, so it doesn't surprise me this article comes out on their influencer mailing list. You're on that list, aren't you, George?
In a fair competitive environment, I believe Windows will lose big. One could argue effectively they're losing even with all their monopoly advantages. If every box ships naked, Windows market share will take a giant step down the crapper and you know that's true.
You can only hold on so long protecting your market share by pressuring OEM's, proprietary file formats and intense lobbying. Instead of providing value, Microsoft specializes in providing pressure.
Microsoft wounded themselves when they shifted their focus to finding new sources of revenue instead of building value-oriented quality software.
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