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- From: farren@shore.net (Mike Farren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dump the crappy hardware!!! (was: Haynie joins AT team)
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 11:43:52 -0500
- Organization: Focus Studios
- Message-ID: <4jbr88$16g@northshore.shore.net>
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- jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) writes:
-
- >Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
-
- >: Because you cannot make money with selling an operating system.
-
- >This is fascinating news for those people who thought Microsoft was a
- >multi-billion dollar company.
-
- That's not from OS sales. Microsoft makes its money, by and large, from
- its applications, not the OS itself. The profit margins for MS Office
- are *far* larger than those for Windows.
-
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