Not clear. I suspect most will still take<div>windoz, but maybe will have the option</div><div>of not taking it, and getting, say, $50 </div><div>knocked off the price?</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:42 AM, John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:03:07AM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_17575829?nclick_check=1" target="_blank">http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_17575829?nclick_check=1</a><br>
><br>
> **<br>
> In an interview published this week, Apotheker told Bloomberg News that HP<br>
> intends to offer the webOS software along with Microsoft's well-known<br>
> Windows operating system on all of its PCs. The company hopes to increase<br>
> the adoption of webOS, both by PC users and by independent developers who<br>
> create applications for PCs and mobile gadgets.<br>
> **<br>
><br>
> It will be interesting to see how many takers<br>
> HP gets. It can probably knock $50 off the price<br>
> of a machine by not having to bow to M$.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Will this save them from having to do so? Won't webOS be shipped<br>
*along with* Windows?<br>
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