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An intersting wrangle is I *believe* the VAST majority of MS profit is NOT
from the OS.

Also there is a school of thought that believes MS will give away personal
(not server) versions of Windoze when Linux and/or something else really
hits the mainstream (i.e. average Joe on the street)

Simon

David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in article
<ubA*f4Noo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>...
> Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
> >Is splitting them up into a lot of monopolies all specialists in several
> >areas (particularly if they're all part of the "M$loth Group", or
whatever)
> >any good?
> 
> If their applications division is separate from their OS division, they
no
> longer have the same interest in having their applications only run on
> Windows; they can maximise their profit by porting them everywhere.
> Arguably, the suddenly not completely crap MacOS support we've seen
> recently is in preparation for this.
> 
> Likewise, the OS division maximise profit by ensuring that everyone's
apps
> run well on their OS.
> 
> In the long term, of course, they make less money than they would from an
> unholy alliance (like the situation at present) where Windows-specific
> apps make one run Windows, and the fact that Microsoft apps work better
on
> Windows than (say) Corel's apps do makes one buy those; but they see a
> short-term profit boost if they defect, and...
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