> Brainless Americans, they are killing their own companies. Oh
> well, it will only benefits countries outside the US in the long
> term.
And you would prefer they continue running roughshod over every other tech company (even their allies) who create competing products? Yeah, I get your point, but neutering M$ will actually benefit companies everywhere, even those inside the US (maybe like Amiga Inc? ;-).
> At least MS doesn't maintain 1 HW vendor for their OS, unlike
> Apple's 1 OS = 1 HW structure.
M$ have been making peripherals for years and introduced a complete hardware system (the XBox) last year. I suspect they've already contemplated making their own PC motherboards, except that there are already so many mothererboard companies and not much money to be made. If they could find a way, I'm sure they'd do it...and to the eventual detriment of the other manufacturers and OEM's.
Todd
