FYI: The Chinese has found a way to improve KMS activation !!

[Roscoe]

Good to see you have come around and agree.

Mike

I wasn't sure if he would ever get it!!

 

[Nina DiBoy]

OK, so I'll try to make *you* see the obvious.

If Windows was the only product MS had, then you would have a point.

However, it is not. MS has lots of products, and lots of money. It's
better in the long run to lose money now and kill the competition, than
to let the competition grow.

You have to take the long term view.

Mike

Windows is the primary and biggest money maker for MS right now. That
could very well change very soon, but for now that is the way it is.

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[Nina DiBoy]

Because in the end, market share produces revenue. Now that you have
the OS, you need apps (Office), services (Windows Live), mice and
keyboards, dev tools (Visual Studio), drivers, peripherals, and on and on.

Besides, we are talking about China here. They are not going to buy it
anyways. It's better to have them use *your* product for free instead
of not at all, at the expense of the *other* product's market share.

If you are Microsoft, which would you rather have - a billion Chinese
using (free) Windows (and all associated
apps/drivers/peripherals/support/services) or a billion Chinese using
(free) Linux? The short term loss produces big gains in the long term,
and also just happens to have the side benefit of hurting your
competition. Which itself is a *huge* gain!

Stop thinking short term. Even if China never sends one dollar to
Microsoft, the gain is in not having Linux get a billion new users.
Which would mean lots of new apps/drivers/peripherals/support/services
for Linux. Which makes Linux more attractive in places where Microsoft
has paying customers.

Again, market share is *everything*.

Mike

OK, so you are saying that MS has to give their OS away to billions on
billions of people so that it's market share does not get surpassed by
Linux. Makes sense to me!

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[ed]

OK, so you are saying that MS has to give their OS away to billions
on billions of people so that it's market share does not get
surpassed by Linux. Makes sense to me!

please, dont't cross post that to COLA. we don't talk about MS here.

 

[Roscoe]

I guess they don't have to, but the evidently choose too.

 

[Larry S. Smith]

please, dont't cross post that to COLA. we don't talk about MS here.

You're lying again ****wit.



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Twenty-seven mentions of Microsoft.