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I didn't downvote you. I also don't see how that citation does anything but reinforce the original point -- Dell is buying Windows from Microsoft and reselling it. It's not even a retail product situation, like Best Buy -- Dell isn't selling Windows, it's selling computers that come with Windows. You can't buy the computer at your link without Windows, and you can't buy Windows without the computer through Dell.
Resellers are a specific economic niche. From a customer perspective CostCo and BestBuy are both just stores. However, BestBuy regularly returns unsold inventory to their suppliers where CostCo generally just has to keep lowering their prices or eat the costs. Dell does not take unsold inventory risks with Windows so it's simply not their business model. Plenty of small PC manufactures do take this risk by buying win…
Re: Introducing Windows 10 Editions
#121Dell is an OEM. How they chose to package their product is their business. More importantly their direct-to-consumer sales are a drop in the bucket. They use resellers too. When you go to Best Buy, nobody chooses their windows. The smiley guy shows you a few laptops based on what he thinks is best for you and you chose the one who looks the best. There are very specific rules about which windows versions go in which models and there are very specific rules about rebates. The rebates dictate what is getting sold to whom. It is such a sophisticated operation, with so much analysis behind it, that people generally don't understand it at all. I tried to hint that if you make such statements, you might not be qualified to talk about it, but apparently you are not willing to entertain this possibility at all. You think you are understand supply and demand better than the collective of thousands of people who run analysis that makes up this strategy, because you read article on a blog... Nothing more to add.