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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
Windows' selling point has always been that it's cheap, so trying to compete with Apple would seem brave. But Android can be cheaper, so it will probably continue to own the low end of the market unless Microsoft start paying tablet manufacturers to ship Windows versions at less than cost price.
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Windows is cheap? An OEM copy of the OS costs about $100 when purchased with suitable components to make a computer. A boxed copy is between $200 and $300. Both prices are as of Windows 7, at a discounter in town. If you were to buy the same computer whiteboxed, you'd save at least the $100 of the OEM copy, and possibly more for all the other bloatware that the manufacturer installs.
That's why some of us in the Free Software community refer to bundled copies of windows as the "Microsoft Tax."