All these licenses and business models

Russell Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Feb 9 19:11:39 UTC 2002


John Cowan writes:
 > Also they sell mice, which must surely be an insignificant part of
 > their revenue, but why would they do it if it didn't make money for them?

Actually, Microsoft's hardware division is quite profitable.  The last 
figure that I heard was that it provided one third of the company's
revenues.

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