Otherwise, short of keyboards and mice, MS has never really performed well in the hardware markets they’ve entered. They supported NT quite well on 3 platforms, but the platforms didn’t take off, either because the applications weren’t there or the users weren’t there (another chicken & egg problem), and MS slowly dropped off their support of NT on those platforms. They’re one of the major contributors to a number of different PC hardware specifications, including the guidelines that PC OEMs look towards when designing new PCs (guidelines which determine what hardware a new PC should come with, which lead to things like all new x86 PCs and many older PCs having USB ports by the time Win98 came out with support for them, and the eventual phase-out of the floppy drive, which has been in the specs for a few years).Īs for NT support for other platforms, that pretty much is the horse & carriage problem (or chicken & egg). Microsoft has had their hands in where PC hardware moves for quite a while, but the XBox is the closest they’ve come to developing a complete PC (even the most recent concept PC was done with HP, they’ve done similar things in the past iirc). Anyone knows otherwise please correct me. NT support for other CPU platforms is not as strong as x86, and PocketPC is really the only other platform MS really supports other than x86. Even Microsoft hasn’t invested much into development of core PC hardware (except up till now with that glassy concpet PC, I want to say Athens but I think I got the codename wrong).
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