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more on Microsoft Shows 85Profit Margins for Windows
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:07:35 -0500
Just because they tried and failed does not mean they did not try. Djf ------ Forwarded Message From: Hiawatha Bray <watha () monitortan com> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:02:00 -0500 To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: <[IP]> Microsoft Shows 85Profit Margins for Windows The fascinating story about Microsoft's lavish margins for Windows--and its pitiful performance in other markets--illustrates perfectly the utter bogusity of one of the most commonly heard criticisms of the company. Remember how Microsoft's dominance in operating systems was destined to enable the company to gobble up every other sector of the computer market? Well, that OS dominance is as strong as ever--and it hasnt helped Microsoft a bit in other segmets of the industry. Thus the claim that Microsoft could simply absorb the entire computer software ecosystem have thus been showed up as the paranoid nonsense it always was. Hiawatha Bray Boston Globe ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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