On Friday 19 March 2004 10:21 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
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> On Friday 19 March 2004 15:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > Anne:
> > The $50 figure was probably based on a weighted average of retail
> > and OEM sales. After all, most new PC's come with Windows preloaded
> > in them. -- cmg
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> You mean they pretend that those are free? The figure I gave (around
> �92) was the oem price, only available with a new mobo or hdd.
> You're not telling me that M$ give them away to new systems.
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> Anne
Anne:
The OEM price that you are quoting is the price for the OEM version, but that
is far more than the Dell's and HP's are paying. Back during the days of the
MS trial and subsequent settlement, it came out that major OEM's were paying
something on the order of $35 per system for the OS. So if they sold a whole
bunch at $35, and a lot less at $200, the total_income would be (whole_bunch
x $35) + (lot_less x $200) for (whole_bunch + lot_less) systems. If
whole_bunch = 10 x lot_less, then the average price would be $50, thereby
getting m'learned colleague off of the hook. ("m'learned colleague" seems to
be the British equivalent to the American "lying lawyer". Yeah, I know --
it's an oxymoron.)
-- cmg
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