-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2007, G T Smith wrote: >> MSs major cash cow is the OEM distribution of the OS to the consumer >> sector, > > MS's major cash cow is MS Office, not Vista or any version of windows. >
- From MS accounts profit (Operating Income) by division.... Client Division 9 months to March 31 2007 $8745m (basically windows) Business Division " $7845m This on approx same revenue stream... Business division is not solely office. BTW Server + Tools Division is additional $2842 of profit. MS has a lower margin on office .... The bulk of the Client division revenue will be OEM sales.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGSMIvasN0sSnLmgIRAivkAKCBvrCYYappTtNuEhgfMytE3+dXhACeNgQ3 aPPQVmrBfBI3jHRXP+dxxKs= =laZH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
