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

[Erick Andrews]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:49:57 +0000, John Poltorak wrote:

>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
>> =================Original message text===============
>> 
>> 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

MS "cookie jar" economics, I guess.

-- 
Erick Andrews