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Poor Mac zealots, you've chosen the wrong platform

You're talking about Microsoft's traditional approach where you guys do the software and other folks do the hardware. Do companies like Apple that do both the hardware and the software, do they have any kind of advantage when it comes to entertainment-type scenarios?
Gates: They have a huge disadvantage in the kind of variety--design points, price points, distribution approaches--they just don't get that. They do get to do this tightly coupled monolithic design. What we have to make sure is that we are working with the partners so we get that creativity of the close coupling while the variety of partners is such that we get something they really don't have.

If you want to point to why the Windows PC has become such a successful, central thing, that enabling of partners, including all those great hardware partners, I'd say that's been very big.

Here you see Toshiba doing SideShow (A Vista feature that enables a secondary display). You see Sony doing this beautiful Media Center, living room-type device. You see HP bringing in this touch-screen capability on a very nice form factor. This show kind of gives you a sense that the world needs variety when there are hundreds of millions of these things that are being sold.

And the poor Mac zealots just have to keep paying $129/year for the privilege of buying all their overpriced hardware and underfeatured software from one unimaginative, uninnovative ([url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=347] Apple patent for an iPod power button [/url]) company. Personally, I'd rather have choice which is why I choose Windows and Linux isn't of the anti-choice company: Apple.

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