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Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
>Is splitting them up into a lot of monopolies all specialists in several
>areas (particularly if they're all part of the "M$loth Group", or whatever)
>any good?

If their applications division is separate from their OS division, they no
longer have the same interest in having their applications only run on
Windows; they can maximise their profit by porting them everywhere.
Arguably, the suddenly not completely crap MacOS support we've seen
recently is in preparation for this.

Likewise, the OS division maximise profit by ensuring that everyone's apps
run well on their OS.

In the long term, of course, they make less money than they would from an
unholy alliance (like the situation at present) where Windows-specific
apps make one run Windows, and the fact that Microsoft apps work better on
Windows than (say) Corel's apps do makes one buy those; but they see a
short-term profit boost if they defect, and...
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