Category: PC

Historical coverage of the PC market and new products by Charles W. Moore. 2004-2017.

Microsoft and Google Disrupt PC Industry Ecosystem; Adopt Apple-Style Vertical Integration With Surface and Nexus 7

PC Mag’s Tim Bajarin says that by becoming hardware vendors, Microsoft and Google have forever shifted the dynamic of the PC industry, disrupting a pattern of 30 years wirh operated around a basic dynamic: Microsoft creating and licenscing an operating system (DOS and then Windows) to PC vendor OEMs who manufactured the hardware to run it. However, Bajarin says that with Microsoft having jumped into […]