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

[Joe Barr]

How much do you suppose they have lost on MSN since the beginning?  A
billion?



On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:01, Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2002.11.18 07:33 PM, Gene Gaines typed: ============
> 
> >
> >MSN, the internet service provider and portal, lost $97m,
> >down from losses of $199m in the same quarter last year, on
> >revenues up from $431m to $531m.
> 
>    Seven years and it's still bleeding cash. This alone should be 
> evidence of their monopolistic tendancies.
> 
> 
> 
> ======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
> --------------------------------[ Http://www.msboycott.com ]-----------
> 
>   "Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system. I guess I
>    would be nervous if my system was built on their technology, too."
>        -Sun Microsystems President Scott McNealy
> 
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#-------------------------------------------------#
#           Microsoft 3rd Qtr Results             #
#                                                 #
#  Product              Revenue   Margin          #
#  Desktop OS            2,890M     85 %          #
#  Office Suite          2,380M     78 %          #
#  Server OS             1,520M     34 %          #
#                                                 #
#  Not bad for a company which pays no dividends  #
#  to its investors and has no pension plan for   #
#  its employees.                                 #
#                                                 #
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