Microsoft has reiterated its commitment to the desktop. Building on its co-founder Bill Gates' vision of a PC on every desk in every home, Microsoft will continue to focus on delivering desktop products. And in this context, nothing will change when it comes down to the development of the company's main cash cows. Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System will be followed by Windows Seven and Office 14. Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer, present at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 in Denver on July 10 emphasized the fact that Windows
Vista will neither be the last of its kind, nor the last big operating system release from the Redmond company. The same strategy is valid for the Office 2007 System.
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partially correct, but after Compaq cloned the IBM bios and started selling IBM compatible 286 and 386s, the price for PCs started to drop, and continued to drop to as the pc market opened up and competition and economies of scale continued to lower the cost to build a pc.
Because of this, as well as the adoption of the pc by the business world, drove the price down where "an average-earning family, let's have one or two of them in the house for the kids" could afford one, which didn't happen to apple until later. This coupled with the desire to have the same software at home as at work, is what put a pc in almost every home.
Apples prices didn't really start to drop until later, when they adopted mostly standard pc parts for their computers, and Mac desktops (laptops seem to be on par) are still more expensive than their PC counterparts, even though they are composed of the very same parts.
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"Er, no. Apple did that. MS only got into Windows to stop the brain-drain away from DOS. "
Early Apple computers could hardly be described as cheap. Accessible, sure, cheap? no way