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Re: [News] [SOT] Margins Go Very Thin, Unless You're a Monopoly

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:32 : \____
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 18 July 2007 13:41 : \____
>>> 
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Dell avoids being kicked off Nasdaq
>>>>> 
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| The board of directors at the Nasdaq stock exchange have thrown an
>>>>>| important lifeline to Dell after they decided to let its shares continue
>>>>>| trading,
>>>>> `----
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9520
>>>> 
>>>> This is, of course, why Dell are keen to push Linux boxes.  The
>>>> Microsoft model has let them down, finally, so they need some other
>>>> sustainable business model.
>>> 
>>> Many people (even myself) would be willing to pay a lot of a Power Linux Box
>>> with plenty of preloaded software that costs nothing to add and preconfigure
>>> (not craplets). Other OEM's follow Dell's footsteps. They share the same
>>> pain. Just look at Lenovo. IBM sold that business of theirs because it
>>> wasn't profitable. It was Windows-dependent with paper-thin margins.
>>> 
>> 
>> It was one of the clearest signs that the concept of a "Windows
>> computer" was a dead one, to me, and at the same time, a key moment in
>> the growth of the "device" as the way forward.  Interestingly, I think
>> Microsoft have seen this coming, but have been perversly stuck with not
>> being a hardware company as a policy position for so long (hardware
>> margins are nowhere near so high as those which they have maintained),
>> that they've almost missed the boat in terms of getting into the devices
>> space.  Supplying versions of "windows" to manufacturers is not going to
>> get them out of the hole they're in.
> 
> Actually, at one time, people criticised Microsoft for stomping on OEMs by
> making their own hardware (XBox360). Look where it ended up. Team leader has
> just abandoned the project. Was the Zune any better? Well, it came from Tosh,
> didn't it. Tosh indeed.
> 

The Zune didn't have a market segment defined.  If Microsoft wanted mass
market, then they'd need to create something which serves mass-market
needs, which includes supporting /standard/ formats in a non-locked-down
way.  They do not understand this.

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