"Microsoft is not a hardware company." How many times have you heard
this or read this? I'm guessing more than once. It's a simple lie we
keep telling ourselves despite the underlying truth: Microsoft has been
designing and selling hardware products for 32 out of its 37 years in
business. And hardware has been a consistently successful venture too,
even in the early days. (Little-known fact: Between 1983 and 1986, sales
of Microsoft mice (in units shipped) matched those of the company's
software products!)
Read the article over at PC Magazine here.
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