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Microsoft exec: Mac users face hidden costs
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| Essentially, Brooks argues that those who buy a Mac pay an "Apple tax" -- an
| application tax (because Apples don't run applications, like Outlook, for
| instance), a technology tax (no Blu-Ray offerings on Macs, for instance) and
| a choice tax (a limited selection of colors, for instance).
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/151394.asp?source=rss
Microsoft: It's a scary world out there without us
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| Reading through Ina Fried's excellent interview with Microsoft's Brad Brooks,
| I can't help but wonder how Microsoft cornered the market on chutzpah.
| Microsoft has become so dominant in markets like the desktop that its best
| argument for consumers and enterprises avoiding the Mac and open source
| is, "But it will cost you so much money to leave Windows."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10065296-16.html
Related:
Microsoft’s Fixed Rate Tax approaches 100%
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| But to get back to the main thread of this. Just two companies here in the UK
| that could offer me a laptop which I could choose to have supplied without an
| Operating System. That is bloody scandalous. EVERY other laptop (apart from
| the 2 Dell machines and some Asus EEe PCs [Update: I was a bit brief here.
| There are few other vendors who supply Linux pre-installed. But they do not
| offer the choice of “no operating system”]) would be supplied with a
| Microsoft Operating System. I had little or no choice; I could always have
| bought a Mac but that’s a somewhat similar issue.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/01/29/microsofts-fixed-rate-tax-approaches-100/
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