Antitrust: How Microsoft Came up with Windows Bundling

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"Do not see this as a price issue. They will pay. Remember IBM did not pay for DOS, but see what happened?

"See the strategic value: It will have lots of followers-OS1 can't compete for now. IBM can only pitch OS/2 against it, but who wants this. The industry will rally even more around it and use it in every account against IBM.

"Money: for six month thereafter no or very low impact. Next year we plan for it. Whereby WIN becomes over time -may be earlier than expected -a 90% OEM product.

"Count Your profit, not the revenue."

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