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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (8665)	6/25/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: Wizard	of 74651

>>Everyone knows that the cost of producing those copies is minimal. If the expenses of development are already taken then apart from marketing and sales expenses isn't there the potential of adding a billion or so in net profits in the next two quarters? Well that doesn't mean they stop R&D. They have new R&D projects which get expensed as incurred so you can't run it through the income statement like that. Moreover, Win98 replaces what would have been Win95 sales so its not all incremental. Then you have to tax the pretax income. Figure it runs through at the same margin as they are currently doing (with upside probable).

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