>I dread to think of a world where software written for HP computers wouldn't work on Dells, and where Lenovo's wouldn't be able to run Microsoft software. Developing software would just be needlessly expensive and annoying.
Having a Wintel monopoly hasn't been great for customers though.
I've always thought that one of HP's biggest failures was ceding control of their platform to Microsoft.
Having a Wintel monopoly hasn't been great for customers though.
Really? Would the PC industry have been as successful -- and its products as widely accessible -- if left up to Apple and a dozen expensive almost-but-not-quite compatible Unix clones? I think not.
Having a Wintel monopoly hasn't been great for customers though.
I've always thought that one of HP's biggest failures was ceding control of their platform to Microsoft.