What MS should have done at the same time they rewrote Office for OS-X
would have been to release Office for Linux (maybe specific
distributions, etc), and use FlexLM licensing (either a license server,
or hardware key per system).
They could have priced it almost the same as Office+Windows, and made a
killing, and kept a lot of people from looking at alternative Office
platforms.
Harry
Ben Ruset wrote:
> Microsoft's big moneymaker is Office. They also make a good margin on
> SQL, Exchange, etc.
>
> The desktop market is a drop in the bucket compared to their server
> side stuff. I have no doubt that in 5 years, after Linux and OSX
> become more prevalent in the market, that Microsoft will make Windows
> shared/open source.
>
> FORC5 wrote:
>> your point ? >:-} must be working, they are.
>>
>> I would like to know what Dell and others pay per year for unlimited
>> installs, I'm positive they do not pay per unit.
>> fp
>>
>> At 10:18 AM 10/5/2006, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with:
>>> Yeah, MS is getting rich on the $10-20 it charges Dell for that OEM
>>> cd key.
>>>
>>> Thane Sherrington wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's fair. MS makes most of the money on a Windows OS sale, yet
>>>> offloads more and more of the work to it's so called "partners."
>>>> Don't they understand that if they make it painful enough to sell
>>>> Windows, they'll force resellers to sell Linux and OSX?
>>
