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<snip> By removing the choice, the cost of the operating system is effectively hidden in the overall cost of the componentry. That cost, industry sources tell me, is typically $US140 — 160, or around $NZ300 per machine. In a filing with the US Security and Exchange Commission in December last year, Microsoft revealed that it really has only two profit-making units, Windows and Office, but that the operating profits from those were an astronomical 85% and 79% respectively. That puts the real cost of your $300 OS at around $45. IDC reckon PC sellers shifted 363,250 new machines in New Zealand last year. If only 95% of them shipped with Windows, that makes for an operating systems bill of more than $100 million, or around $85 million in gross profit. </snip> ============================================================================ A mail-list of Linux Users Group - Bulgaria (bulgarian linuxers). http://www.linux-bulgaria.org - Hosted by Internet Group Ltd. - Stara Zagora To unsubscribe: http://www.linux-bulgaria.org/public/mail_list.html ============================================================================
