Thursday, July 4, 2002
Microsoft gets into PC hardware business
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 01:03 PM
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4248
Wow - I didn't see this one coming! The PC hardware business is a brutal one, and I'm shocked Microsoft would wade into it. Still, there's a great deal of power attached to the Windows brand, and if Microsoft tightly controls the hardware platform, they can likely achieve impressive stability. If this is true, it will alter the PC landscape in a big way over the next year.
"A report in the Economic News claims that Microsoft and FIC will jointly launch a so–called "Dream PC" which doesn't even use an Intel chip, but instead makes use of a Via C3. The report claims that the first jointly developed "Dream PC" will be introduced towards the end of this month and that Microsoft will also show quite a few so called "baseline" or cheap machines which run with Via C3 600MHz chips and Windows XP...the report adds that each complete machine will cost between $300 to $400 and are aimed at the low end of the market which doesn't necessarily need processors running at 2GHz and above." Source: Lockergnome.
Wow - I didn't see this one coming! The PC hardware business is a brutal one, and I'm shocked Microsoft would wade into it. Still, there's a great deal of power attached to the Windows brand, and if Microsoft tightly controls the hardware platform, they can likely achieve impressive stability. If this is true, it will alter the PC landscape in a big way over the next year.
"A report in the Economic News claims that Microsoft and FIC will jointly launch a so–called "Dream PC" which doesn't even use an Intel chip, but instead makes use of a Via C3. The report claims that the first jointly developed "Dream PC" will be introduced towards the end of this month and that Microsoft will also show quite a few so called "baseline" or cheap machines which run with Via C3 600MHz chips and Windows XP...the report adds that each complete machine will cost between $300 to $400 and are aimed at the low end of the market which doesn't necessarily need processors running at 2GHz and above." Source: Lockergnome.
