| ▲ | detourdog 14 hours ago | |
The PC manufacturers had to pay MS for a license no matter what operating system was installed. | ||
| ▲ | SvenL 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Didn’t knew that, but only if they also sold windows pc? Like, if a company would only sold blank PCs without any offering associated to MS they wouldn’t need to pay MS anything. | ||
| ▲ | LocalH 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Indeed. Pepperidge Farm remembers Microsoft's campaign against "naked PCs" | ||