100% Microsoft Hardware Computer?

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I was thinking a yearly updated (approx) "gaming" branded computer by microsoft with all certified hardware and a known hardware platform that was kind of a cross between a windows machine and an xbox, in that it would be a gaming pc (they could do an office or other versions too) with known certified drivers by microsoft and a more fixed test/hardware platform to help reduce bugs, along with a slick windows-themed integrated look, and a good selection of hardware/other options (like 3d glasses & video games) that is both diverse and specific (for debugging purposes)

Quote:Original post by aersixb9
I was wondering why apple has their own hardware-specific os line, and maybe if microsoft should do that and if it would be neat? I think they got in trouble last time they tried to make hardware like apple, maybe it would be ok now....I mostly use microsoft hardware now...at least my mouse and gamepad, and I was thinking a yearly updated (approx) "gaming" branded computer by microsoft with all certified hardware and a known hardware platform that was kind of a cross between a windows machine and an xbox, in that it would be a gaming pc (they could do an office or other versions too) with known certified drivers by microsoft and a more fixed test/hardware platform to help reduce bugs, along with a slick windows-themed integrated look, and a good selection of hardware/other options (like 3d glasses & video games) that is both diverse and specific (for debugging purposes)

Bonus points if it does windows AND xbox and includes a 360 pad

And it would take exactly how long before dell/hp/whatever sued Microsoft for anticompetetive practices ?

As it is today Microsoft can't legally enter the PC hardware business while dominating the OS market because doing so would essentially kill all competition, no other vendor would be able to sell Windows based PCs at competetive prices unless Microsoft started giving their OS away, If the OS market was more diverse vendors such as HP/Dell/etc could make their own OS but on todays market that just doesn't work (Compatibility is everything).

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Quote:Original post by aersixb9
I was wondering why apple has their own hardware-specific os line, and maybe if microsoft should do that and if it would be neat? I think they got in trouble last time they tried to make hardware like apple, maybe it would be ok now....I mostly use microsoft hardware now...at least my mouse and gamepad, and I was thinking a yearly updated (approx) "gaming" branded computer by microsoft with all certified hardware and a known hardware platform that was kind of a cross between a windows machine and an xbox, in that it would be a gaming pc (they could do an office or other versions too) with known certified drivers by microsoft and a more fixed test/hardware platform to help reduce bugs, along with a slick windows-themed integrated look, and a good selection of hardware/other options (like 3d glasses & video games) that is both diverse and specific (for debugging purposes)

Bonus points if it does windows AND xbox and includes a 360 pad

And it would take exactly how long before dell/hp/whatever sued Microsoft for anticompetetive practices ?

As it is today Microsoft can't legally enter the PC hardware business while dominating the OS market because doing so would essentially kill all competition, no other vendor would be able to sell Windows based PCs at competetive prices unless Microsoft started giving their OS away, If the OS market was more diverse vendors such as HP/Dell/etc could make their own OS but on todays market that just doesn't work (Compatibility is everything).

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Quote:Original post by aersixb9
I was wondering why apple has their own hardware-specific os line, and maybe if microsoft should do that and if it would be neat? I think they got in trouble last time they tried to make hardware like apple, maybe it would be ok now....I mostly use microsoft hardware now...at least my mouse and gamepad, and I was thinking a yearly updated (approx) "gaming" branded computer by microsoft with all certified hardware and a known hardware platform that was kind of a cross between a windows machine and an xbox, in that it would be a gaming pc (they could do an office or other versions too) with known certified drivers by microsoft and a more fixed test/hardware platform to help reduce bugs, along with a slick windows-themed integrated look, and a good selection of hardware/other options (like 3d glasses & video games) that is both diverse and specific (for debugging purposes)

Bonus points if it does windows AND xbox and includes a 360 pad

And it would take exactly how long before dell/hp/whatever sued Microsoft for anticompetetive practices ?

As it is today Microsoft can't legally enter the PC hardware business while dominating the OS market because doing so would essentially kill all competition, no other vendor would be able to sell Windows based PCs at competetive prices unless Microsoft started giving their OS away, If the OS market was more diverse vendors such as HP/Dell/etc could make their own OS but on todays market that just doesn't work (Compatibility is everything).

Given that Apple have entered into a sueing match with Samsung, the people who make/made their chips, over (among other things) making a flat object with a black boarder, I'm willing to bet that at the first sign of someone trying to make their own OSX 'clone' they would sue them into oblivion and back again...