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   From: ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand   
      
   In message <20101206074511.314@usenet.drumscum.be>, TomB wrote:   
      
   > On 2010-12-06, the following emerged from the brain of Lawrence   
   > D'Oliveiro:   
   >   
   >> I wonder, if you exclude all the pirated copies of Windows, would   
   >> its desktop market share, instead of being close to 90%, be more   
   >> like 50%?   
   >   
   > I do not think so. While piracy is indeed very common, new PCs have   
   > been shipped with Windows for years.   
      
   Don’t be so sure—that’s only (mostly) true of tier-1 vendors. If you add   
   together HP and Dell’s market share, they only account for about 30% of   
   world PC sales. So you can see that the majority of the world’s PCs do not   
   come from tier-1 vendors. In some countries, Microsoft claims a “piracy”   
   rate as high as 90%.   
      
   Don’t judge things simply by what’s on show at your local first-world   
   superstore.   
      
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