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.
> 
> 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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