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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I think the combined revenue for their applications probably either is
> (or could be) their largest source of revenue.
IIRC, Windows and Office are (respectively) their #1 and #2 earners.
Everything else pales in comparison. Their most successful products
outside of these two make nowhere near as much money for them.
Of course, that was a few years ago, and things could have changed.
>> Think Windows Vista is bad now? Imagine how bad things would be 10
>> years from now, if MS's development budget were slashed in half.
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> Depends on how they structure the business. If the apps fed into the OS
> development stream and the apps were successful enough, then it could be
> self-reinforcing.
Yeah, but they wouldn't get paid for the OS, only for the Apps, so
there's the temptation to focus on the apps and not the OS.
...Chambers
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