WiiStation360 said:
heruamon said:
“Entertainment and Devices Division (“EDD”) offerings include the Xbox 360 platform (which includes the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console system, Xbox 360 video games, Xbox Live, and Xbox 360 accessories), the Zune digital music and entertainment platform, PC software games, online games and services, Mediaroom (our Internet protocol television software), the Microsoft Surface computing platform, Windows Mobile and embedded device platforms, and other devices. EDD leads the development efforts for our line of consumer software and hardware products including application software for Apple’s Macintosh computers and Microsoft PC hardware products, and is responsible for all retail sales and marketing for Microsoft Office and Windows operating systems.
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Just a quick question about next quarter.
I know that Mac Office sales are always hidded in the EDD division.
Does the highlighted section above mean that all Windows 7 retail sales will be included in the EDD numbers for next quarter? If so, the numbers should be huge.
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I wouldn't think so. The EDD division pays that money back to the Windows division. They also pay out for the advertising which will be accompanying the launch of that product. It all depends on how they fiddle with the numbers and they never tell you exactly how the fiddling works.
