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by dmethvin 5151 days ago
Microsoft doesn't sell a product, it sells a component. It's the OS that OEMs buy when building their products. If an OEM wants to build a low-end, high-end, or vertical-market product using Windows, Microsoft will gladly sell them the OS and let the OEM take the business risk. Some will succeed and some will fail, but all will pay their license fee.

The only high-low positioning that Microsoft tends to do with Windows is the myriad "editions" which everyone tends to dislike anyway.