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Microsoft Profit and Loss by Business Area
An anonymous submitter writes "The Register is reporting in this article striking new evidence of what in my opinion can only be described as abuse of their monopoly position. A recent SEC filing shows that they lose money in every business area except Windows (86% profit) and Office (79% profit)." Another notes that the Financial Times has a story on the same subject - Dr. No writes "According to the Financial Times, Microsoft's Windows division has a profit margin of 85%. This is the first time this figure has been made public." The full version of Windows XP costs about $300.00. Microsoft could sell it for $45 and still make a profit. The difference between the $45 price and the $300 price is what economists call "monopoly rents".
The other $255 pays for IE and WMP
we could drive M$ to bankruptcy by buying BULK xboxes and using them as Linux servers?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Did anybody else think they'd come up with a new product when they read the headline?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
microsoft should be paying us money to use it, anything more than that is "overcharge."
I couldnt have put it better myself.
"I'm tired of all this 'Aren't humanity great' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes" - Bill Hicks
...just because you know how to type in bold, it doesn't mean you're right.
...and still no one likes M$ :)
- When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail -
Linux is a viable alternative to Windows.
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The only good weather is bad weather.
The X-Box is currently losing $750M/year, and is set to rise. How can other companies hope to compete, or even break into that market?
They should buy lots of X-Boxes and use them as landfill.