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To: alydar who wrote (62974)11/13/2001 6:11:03 PM
From: Dave  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74651
 
msft makes 90% of their profits from their os and office suite and the office suite only works on their os.

Mac Office X users would be surprised to learn that!

Of course, if MS Office were a separate company, there would probably also be Java and Linux and Palm versions of Office available for purchase. They would quite likely make a lot of money too. But that will never happen (which is bad for consumers) unless the States prevail in their antitrust case against MSFT.

Dave



To: alydar who wrote (62974)11/13/2001 11:00:09 PM
From: David Howe  Respond to of 74651
 
Rocky,

<< msft makes 90% of their profits from their os and office suite >>

False (not even close actually)

<< and the office suite only works on their os. >>

False

<< so you can say that msft has only one profitable business. >>

False (many of the businesses you consider as non-businesses have the ability to overtake ORCL in terms of revenue and perhaps earnings ie. MSN and .Net)


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