[Am-info] Fwd: [IP] Microsoft Shows 85% Profit Margins for Windows

[John Poltorak]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:33:37PM -0500, Gene Gaines wrote:
> This is a forwarded message
> From:  Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
> To:    ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
> Date:  Monday, November 18, 2002, 6:50:00 PM
> Subject: [IP] Microsoft Shows 85Profit Margins for Windows
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> Microsoft Shows 85Profit Margins for Windows
> 
> November 17, 2002
> By PAUL ABRAHAMS, FT.COM
> 
> 
> Microsoft has revealed for the first time that it has made
> profit margins of 85 per cent on its Windows system while
> its remaining businesses made losses, raising questions
> about the benefits of the group's costly efforts at
> diversification. 
> 
> And the CE/Mobility division, which includes mobile
> telephone software and the Windows CE operating system for
> handheld computers, lost $33m on revenues of $17m.

How does anyone manage to make losses of $33m on revenues of $17m?!!!

Are they actually paying people to take their stuff away? :-)...


-- 
John