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Originally Posted by jethro_static
Like what hardware? Microsoft can design and ask for a hardware for their own specifications. But it does not mean they made the hardware.They ask for the specifics for xbox because they are not selling the OS. They are selling the console. WHen MS started, They only sell strictly OS. They only sell components for a PC when the company grew bigger. They did not make the components at first. They brand it.
No different than any hardware company? Qualcomm for example will ask somebody else to make their CPU? Nvidia will ask somebody else to make their Video cards?
What I said is point on. WHat you said is completely bogus.
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Qualcomm is not a hardware company, they are a chip company.
By your logic, there is no such thing as a hardware company. HTC is using qualcomm components so they aren't manufacturing it themselves. Sony has all sorts of 3rd party components in their tv's...
By the way- like I said, Microsoft has made hardware since at least the 1990's, and probably before then. If you disagree with that, then you are the one with the bogus posts. Anyone who has ever been to the Redmond Campus can visit Microsoft's little museum and see tons of hardware Microsoft has put out over the years.
I am typing this on a Microsoft keyboard that I have had for several years, by the way, and using a Microsoft mouse that I bought back in like 2000.
In fact, here's a link for you:
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/25thanniversary.mspx
Copy and paste from that link:
"Microsoft Hardware was formed in 1982 to develop a device that would help people use the company’s new word processing program."
So they have been making hardware since 1982. That means you were wrong.