On 08/10/2011 05:42 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/8/2011 5:40, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> It's hard to understand why people have trouble affording a single hard
>> drive when you buy in such bulk quantities.
>
> And remember that you're not really their big customer. When 85% of your
> sales go to the OEMs, worrying about whether this one guy can afford to
> upgrade his disk doesn't really make sense. Especially since if you
> can't afford a $50 disk, you can't afford a $200 OS. :-)

That's a point. As far as OEMs are concerned, the more hardware it takes 
to run Windows, the more likely and users are to buy more hardware.

This, I suspect, is one of the main reasons OEMs love MS...

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