[Ti] [OT] Micro$oft acquires Virtual PC

[T.L.Miller]

Sat, Feb 22, 2003 8:16 PM robert at ameeti.net Robert Ameeti said:

>I'm not John but my belief is that Mac users who buy VPC buy it because
>they have to use a PC product. If VPC wasn't around, they'd still have to
>buy something to run their PC application. That would be a PC running
>Windows. Thus, no lost sale. And in fact, that purchase of a PC might
>actually make that one more user who switches and just gives up the Mac.

If there were no VPC and users who had to run PC apps. would likely ditch
the Mac. Controlling VPC allows MS to hold a high card if Apple gets too
uppity. The volume MS gets from the copies of Windows that come w/ VPC is
likely to be chump-change to them