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I don’t get it.
All great things, come from small beginnings.
sargasso said, on November 28th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
All great things, come from small beginnings.
What does that have to do with Microsoft?
$99 sounds like a bargain now a days.
The story behind why you couldn’t use this offer in Nebraska.
It has something to do with the original Ma Bell, 1-800 #s, and the Strategic Air Command in Omaha.
#5 – The link gave me an error, could you please just spell out why this offer is not valid in NE? I just don’t get it.
BTW, Ballmer is as much an ass today as he is in this video.
OK so Windows backin the 80s was $99 for low power computers costing thousands of $$$ but now in 2009, Windows starts at $200+ for computers costing $300, something just doesn’t add up, and OS X at $29 is cheaper than windows 1.
Help. My eyes and ears are bleeding.
actually I thought OS X was only $30 if it’s an upgrade?
@ #7:
$200? The home premium version is $100, and if you get it with your computer or buy the upgrade variant the actual cost is in the $50-75 range. Even the Professional version with support for domains and the built-in XP license/virtual machine is only $140 new.
Not bad for a piece of software you’ll use every day for a couple years. As you can see in the video, Microsoft clearly didn’t achieve dominance because of their marketing skills. 🙂
# 7 jstephe said, “OS X at $29 is cheaper than windows 1.” Not really. You gotta buy and Apple computer first. Now let’s see, I can buy an Apple Mac for $1200 or a Very well equipped Dell for $700. Now, how much would I save?
What’s really sad is they had UNIX back then, and Bell Labs never thought “Hey, I could corner the market if I came out with a cheap version of UNIX for PC’s.”
#5… thanks for that link. What a fascinating website. I love their “Laws and Formulas”.
You can hate Steve Jobs all you want, but he’s a hell of a smoother salesman that Ballmer’s loud and brash approach. Thank goodness Microsoft’s sales were based on the quality/value of their products, and not Ballmers’s personality, or else they would have gone bankrupt right away.
Was this one of MS’s joke videos they showed at their yearly sales meetings?
Go google M$ sucks!
Actually, that ad sort of sums up the hucksterism attitude that went into the original purchase of Windows.
That’s also how, and why, Microsoft got into anti-competitive bundling of their product.
Go anybody else!!!
Ballmer has ALWAYS BEEN A HUCKSTER !!! See the “Monkey Boy” Video for more !!!
Dude, this is ancient inside the company humor. That isn’t the way Ballmer ever dressed or acted except to do a farce video for inside the company that he and his friends could laugh at.
Grow up.
#12 – I seem to remember that IBM tried to put together an operating system based on CMS – which ran as a virtual machine on its mainframes (liked CMS as you could do just about anything to anything including editing object code with a bit of effort).
If I remember right, and it was 30 years ago,
‘A’ was the console
‘B’ the card reader and
‘C’ the disk space – which would have been 1 or 2 megabytes –
Always wondered if that was where DOS/Windows got its ‘C’ drive from.
Uh, Animby, #11.
Your MacBook will cost you $1000, or $700 for the Dell.
Now, if you keep each machine 5 years, and do two O/S upgrades on each, the windows box would cost you an additional $400, and the Mac would cost you $60.
Now which one is “less?”
I couldn’t resist. I had to buy one. I didn’t have a checkbook handy so I just sent them the money.