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  1. Bug #1 (liberation)
  2. Comment #1630

Comment 1630 for bug 1

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houstonbofh (leesharp) wrote : Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

On 02/27/2012 11:39 AM, Tom wrote:
> One of the other problems is that when they get discounted Windows they
> are told the costs. Say a £200 piece of software getting installed for
> just £35 sounds like they are getting a good bargain. When people say
> this equivalent thing is free they can't cope and have to ask "What is
> wrong with it that it's not being sold at a much higher cost? "

Sorry to reply to myself, but I left this out...

Windows is less than free for most OEMs. The OEM cost is $35-$90, and
the revenue from trial software preinstalled is $50-$150 or more.

As a package like this, Windows is cheaper than Linux.

This is not Microsoft being evil, this is product placement, and it is
only going to grow in the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement In some case, the
revenue from trialware is more than 75% of the margin of the entire
computer.