In fact, Dell still sells low end laptops with lower resolution than my 10 year old Dell (1600x900), the same 4GB RAM, the same speed hard drive, and the same wireless technology - 802.11n 5Ghz. The only thing slow about is the spinning hard drive for what she needed. I just brought home an old Dell Inspiron Dual Core Pentium circa 2009 running Windows 7 (cleaned it up) with 4Gb of RAM and installed the latest version of Chrome and Office using one of my 6 available users. Considering that most non gamers only use their home computers for Web+Office these days. Who was going to pay for crapware on Linux? Few PC consumers want computers without Windows just like few consumers want Android without Google Services.īesides that, computers have been “good enough” for home use for awhile where they don’t need to be upgraded. Consumers are buying fewer PCs because of mobile and better single use devices like streaming boxes, smart TVs, and consoles. The estimated $30 per computer that OEMs pay has nothing to do with consumers buying fewer PCs. Which stopped because MS thought they were "finished" with IE 6. A world of (mostly teased but not delivered) Windows services you'd subscribe to like a series of cable channels, and when sites still backed either Netscape or IE with little "made for." icons. The era when you could put an activeX component on the desktop, or embed it into a screen saver, and some network services like ftp wouldn't be distinguished from just opening an explorer window. I'm sure many individual MS engineers understood well enough. ![]() They failed in good part from completely misunderstanding, presumably at management level, their target. ![]() On slightly thinner ice, Microsoft was at the height of "embracing, extending and extinguishing" the browser and internet at the time of the book.
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