The PC manufacturers had to pay MS for a license no matter what operating system was installed.
Didn’t knew that, but only if they also sold windows pc? Like, if a company would only sold blank PCs without any offering associated to MS they wouldn’t need to pay MS anything.
Indeed. Pepperidge Farm remembers Microsoft's campaign against "naked PCs"
Didn’t knew that, but only if they also sold windows pc? Like, if a company would only sold blank PCs without any offering associated to MS they wouldn’t need to pay MS anything.