Invisible wrote:
> They offer a nice rate if the business signs an exclusive contract? Or 
> they won't sell to the business at all if they don't sign an exclusive 
> contract?

Nothing stops the business from going somewhere else, buying the stuff, and 
reselling it. There are lots of small shops that would build you a computer 
to spec and then buy a copy of Windows and install it for you.

MS just gave better rates to those who would do the install themselves. Part 
of it was you could look at how many computers were sold and just bill for 
OSes based on that. MS didn't have to take the word of the OEM about how 
many machines were sold with Windows and how many machines were sold without.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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