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 the OEM license of the system, at the price of which Microsoft sells it to vendors. Journalists of the Wall Street Journal managed to find out such information . The cost of the 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, in a sense, became Microsoft's driver in the face of the unpopularity of selling its Windows Vista PCs) will grow by as much as 80% to 21 million (ordinary PCs will fall by 11.9%). If now it is 96% (in the first half of 2008 - about 10%) of these devices shipped to distributors, work under Windows, and Microsoft XP is ready to supply Windows XP for ultra-cheap PCs until 2010, you can ask a reasonable question: will Linux supersede Windows? Does MS have the right to set such a price for the OS?

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