On the pricing policy of operating systems on "ultra-cheap laptops"
It turns out that Windows XP costs only $ 15 , that is, we are talking about an OEM license of the system, at the price of which Microsoft sells it to vendors. Such information was managed to find out the journalists of the Wall Street Journal . The cost of an OEM version of Windows Vista according to the same data is $ 50-60, although a license for Windows Vista Starter costs $ 30.
Gartner predicts that the netbook market (which became, in a sense, Microsoft’s driver in the context of the unpopularity of its Windows Vista PC sales) will grow by as much as 80% to 21 million units (conventional PCs will fall by 11.9%). If now 96% (in the first half of 2008 - about 10%) of these devices, shipped to distributors , work under Windows, and Windows XP for ultra-cheap Microsoft PCs are ready to be delivered until 2010, you can ask a reasonable question: will Linux be supplanted by Windows? Does MS have the right to set such a price on the OS?
Gartner predicts that the netbook market (which became, in a sense, Microsoft’s driver in the context of the unpopularity of its Windows Vista PC sales) will grow by as much as 80% to 21 million units (conventional PCs will fall by 11.9%). If now 96% (in the first half of 2008 - about 10%) of these devices, shipped to distributors , work under Windows, and Windows XP for ultra-cheap Microsoft PCs are ready to be delivered until 2010, you can ask a reasonable question: will Linux be supplanted by Windows? Does MS have the right to set such a price on the OS?
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/58252/
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