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bumidan said: If you look at the previous thread, you can see how I broke it down. If you take into account all the numbers, it's ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, that they are losing money on hardware in FY End Jun 08. Because there are no other places where you can attribute enough profit to make up the $426 million that they reported. |
How about this math. According to this site, Microsoft has sold 46,083,983 units of software for the first six months of 2008. Assume 80% is third party and they collect a $10 licence fee. Assume 20% is first party and they make $20. Let's do the math. 36,867,186.4 x $10 = $368,671,864 from third party software. $9,216,796.6x $20 = $184,335,932 for first party. Total profit of $553,007,796. Hmm, that's over their reported profit. Still think they can't be losing money on hardware?
