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How many times do I have to repeat myself?
DELL DOES NOT PAY MICROSOFT FOR A COPY OF WINDOWS UNTIL THEY SELL IT TO A CUSTOMER. It's the same for any other major OEM.
Yes, small mom and pop shops may buy individual licenses, and those would count as sold, but those stores are not going to buy a large quantity of them, they'll have whatever they need on hand because they don't have a lot of money for inventory.
Please stop with the absolutes. You seem to love to make these arguments that are all or nothing. Touch sucks because sometimes you need a keyboard, Metro sucks because sometimes you need more than one window, etc.. those are called strawman arguments. You deliberately setup a false scenario by specifying an extreme position and then proceed to discredit it.
I'm not saying there are 0 possible unsold copies in that calculation, but it's unlikely that there is a large percentage because, as I said, OEM's do not pay Microsoft until they have themselves sold a computer with it.
DELL DOES NOT PAY MICROSOFT FOR A COPY OF WINDOWS UNTIL THEY SELL IT TO A CUSTOMER. It's the same for any other major OEM.
Yes, small mom and pop shops may buy individual licenses, and those would count as sold, but those stores are not going to buy a large quantity of them, they'll have whatever they need on hand because they don't have a lot of money for inventory.
Please stop with the absolutes. You seem to love to make these arguments that are all or nothing. Touch sucks because sometimes you need a keyboard, Metro sucks because sometimes you need more than one window, etc.. those are called strawman arguments. You deliberately setup a false scenario by specifying an extreme position and then proceed to discredit it.
I'm not saying there are 0 possible unsold copies in that calculation, but it's unlikely that there is a large percentage because, as I said, OEM's do not pay Microsoft until they have themselves sold a computer with it.
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