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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
MSFT 401.14+1.9%Feb 6 9:30 AM EST
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To: Typhoon who wrote (123)10/28/1997 8:45:00 PM
From: Jerry Heidtke  Read Replies (1) of 1600
 
It's not hard to figure out why MS would like WinCE to be the OS "of choice" for embedded systems.

Last year, about 200 million new PC's were sold. If an MS OS went on 80% of them, at about $20 a crack, that comes to just over $3 billion in sales.

Last year, about 7 billion embedded processors were sold. I've seen an estimate for 10 billion this year. If an MS OS went on only a quarter of this year's embedded processors, with a license fee of only $5 each, that comes to just over $12 billion in sales.

Hell, who cares about them funky little PC's, anyways?

Jerry
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