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Old 06-20-2012, 08:20 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by dangonay View Post
Now there are rumblings from PC vendors who are not happy they have to compete against MS. For the most part, MS has stayed out of the PC business and was content to let others make the hardware while they provide the OS. Now they are competing directly with those same vendors by selling hardware.

I wonder how much MS "tacks on" for a Win 8 license to the price of their own tablets, or if they will eat the cost to help gain traction in the market. Meanwhile vendors will be paying for a license on every tablet they sell.
I'm pretty sure it won't be their intention to compete with their own vendors, and it will be something like the Nexus, where they put it out there and go "this is how you do it right" while charging a bit more for the product since they don't have to compete.

Either that, or there is very little interest in the OS, and they are completely on their own...
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