Hardware/OEM

This index deals with Comes vs Microsoft court exhibits which offer a glance at the history of Microsoft abuse. For a concise summary of some of the exhibits, see "Petition text - overview".

Strategy

 * Microsoft Internal OEM Price Guideline (Exhibit PX07790)
 * How to transition OEM without looking bad (Exhibit PX02129)
 * Sell through insurance with the OEMs (Exhibit PX02196)
 * Microsoft and the secret shopper program (Exhibit PX02820)
 * How to bypass the legal sniff test with volume pricing (Exhibit PX04044)
 * Office Works & Home Essentials Revenues & Licenses (Exhibit PX04058)
 * Top 10 U.S. OEMs based Windows 98 (Exhibit PX04072)
 * Microsoft Confidential (on OEMs) (Exhibit px04528)
 * Amstrad MS License Agreement (Exhibit PX05130)

Hostility

 * We need to turn the spotlight on the hyenas (Exhibit PX09139)
 * Microsoft: OEMS are our delivery people (Exhibit PLEX0_2905)
 * Don't let OEMs interject themselves into the customer boot experience (Exhibit PX02848]
 * Mutually agree to do exactly what I tell them (Exhibit PX04076)
 * OEM's are resisting (Exhibit PX05003)

Retaliation

 * Don't let the big manufacturers off the per system hook (Exhibit PX00023)
 * Bill Gates: an ISV that writes to COR is just f*cked (Exhibit PLEX0_2759)
 * Kempin: Compaq truely pisses me off (Exhibit PLEX0_2455]
 * Fxxk HP (all divisions) (Exhibits PX05099 and PX05101)

Other

 * New Interactive Media Group PLG (Exhibit PX04032_B)
 * OEM hit list

Also see:


 * Compaq
 * Intel
 * Dell
 * Acer
 * Gateway

Posts of Interest

 * Antitrust: How Microsoft Came up with Windows Bundling (exhibits PX00980 and PX00982) - This post illustrates Microsoft's intent to exploit OEMs so that they restrict choice (operating systems).

Microsoft's Fight Against Sub-notebooks and GNU/Linux at ASUS (2008-09)

 * ASUS Enters the Slog Business
 * More Suspicious Moves from ASUS
 * It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?
 * ASUS: “Currently, We’re Closely Tied up With Microsoft”
 * What is Going on with ASUS and GNU/Linux?
 * ASUS Profits Fall 94% After Getting “Closely Tied Up with Microsoft” at the Expense of GNU/Linux
 * Microsoft Embracing, Extending, and Extinguishing Sub-notebooks
 * Does Microsoft Blackmail Sub-notebooks Vendors?
 * What Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Taskforce in Wal-Mart Teaches Us About Sub-notebooks