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- From: sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <BzpBH3.Los@csulb.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 07:29:26 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.095022.21715@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <BzoG15.21q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec23.013422.24038@sequent.com>
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- In article <1992Dec23.013422.24038@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:
- >In article <BzoG15.21q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
- >>helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- >>>Ever think that Microsoft is only able to devote 27+% of its income to
- >>>R & D because it has such a big market share and because its products are
- >>>so competative?
- >>
- >>And do you know how big this market share is? In 1991, MS received
- >>about 25% of the total profit of all software sold. No other company
- >>is even close to this amount of profit per total market sales.
- >>
- >
- >Microsoft devotes the LARGEST amount of money percentage wise I
- >have seen in a high tech company. "only 27+% of it's income to R&D"
- >is a far higher percentage of it's income than most companies are
- >willing to even think about, much less put to practice.
- >
- >Once you get the lawyers and accountants out of the spending loop,
- >R&D money is what provides the products and the quality thereof.
- >That's what most business people never learn, and one of the
- >reasons Microsoft has become a great success story.
- >
- >JMHO...
-
- Well, I would be interested in seeing how they calculate the figures
- since some of those accountants that manage to sneak into MS can have
- funny ways of calculating things, especially if those couple of lawyers
- tell 'em it's OK.
-
- Anyway, MS's size and revenue is due a lot more to their presence
- at the dawn of the microcomputer age and having the cash coes of DOS
- and Windows to feed the other activities. Surely, you can't, in YHO,
- claim that all that R&D money has manifested itself in DOS or Windows,
- considering how many years they have had to improve them when guys
- with much less money have managed to produce better environments with
- less resources.
-
- In fact, I'm hard pressed to come up with anything that MS has truly been
- an innovator on - with respect to major industry trends. They do seem to
- have the ability to develop and even 'perfect' some concepts, but all that
- R&D sure hasn't gone to nurturing any genius in Redmond.
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- Jeff Sicherman
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