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Hardware/OEM

Category:OEM Category:Comes v Microsoft Category:Antitrust Category:Microsoft Category:Hardware Category:Retaliation This index deals with Comes vs Microsoft court exhibits which offer a glance at the history of Microsoft abuse. For a concise summary of some of the exhibits, see "Petition text - overview".

Strategy

  • Microsoft Internal OEM Price Guideline (Exhibit PX07790)
  • How to transition OEM without looking bad (Exhibit PX02129)
  • Sell through insurance with the OEMs (Exhibit PX02196)
  • Microsoft and the secret shopper program (Exhibit PX02820)
  • How to bypass the legal sniff test with volume pricing (Exhibit PX04044)
  • Office Works & Home Essentials Revenues & Licenses (Exhibit PX04058)
  • Top 10 U.S. OEMs based Windows 98 (Exhibit PX04072)
  • Microsoft Confidential (on OEMs) (Exhibit px04528)
  • Amstrad MS License Agreement (Exhibit PX05130)


    • Hostility

  • We need to turn the spotlight on the hyenas (Exhibit PX09139)
  • Microsoft: OEMS are our delivery people (Exhibit PLEX0_2905)
  • Don't let OEMs interject themselves into the customer boot experience (Exhibit PX02848]
  • Mutually agree to do exactly what I tell them (Exhibit PX04076)
  • OEM's are resisting (Exhibit PX05003)


    • Retaliation

  • Don't let the big manufacturers off the per system hook (Exhibit PX00023)
  • Bill Gates: an ISV that writes to COR is just f*cked (Exhibit PLEX0_2759)
  • Kempin: Compaq truely pisses me off (Exhibit PLEX0_2455]
  • Fxxk HP (all divisions) (Exhibits PX05099 and PX05101)


    • Other

  • New Interactive Media Group PLG (Exhibit PX04032_B)
  • OEM hit list


    • Also see:

  • Compaq
  • Intel
  • Dell
  • Acer
  • Gateway


    • Posts of Interest

  • Antitrust: How Microsoft Came up with Windows Bundling (exhibits PX00980 and PX00982) - This post illustrates Microsoft's intent to exploit OEMs so that they restrict choice (operating systems).


    • Microsoft's Fight Against Sub-notebooks and GNU/Linux at ASUS (2008-09)

  • ASUS Enters the Slog Business
  • More Suspicious Moves from ASUS
  • It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?
  • ASUS: “Currently, We’re Closely Tied up With Microsoft”
  • What is Going on with ASUS and GNU/Linux?
  • ASUS Profits Fall 94% After Getting “Closely Tied Up with Microsoft” at the Expense of GNU/Linux
  • Microsoft Embracing, Extending, and Extinguishing Sub-notebooks
  • Does Microsoft Blackmail Sub-notebooks Vendors?
  • What Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Taskforce in Wal-Mart Teaches Us About Sub-notebooks