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Microsoft's Peculiar Profit Obsession, .NET, and What It All Really Means
Otro artículo de conspiración por parte de Cringley:
"Now this argument that Microsoft is obsessed with profitability may sound odd when you realize that nearly all Microsoft profits come from two product areas -- the Windows operating systems and the Microsoft Office application suites. Just about everything else Microsoft sells at a loss ... "
"Microsoft is so incredibly profitable that it can carry all those losing businesses along quite deliberately, knowing that at any time they can be shut down or trimmed back and the money that might have been spent converted instantly and precisely into profit. If Microsoft simply shut down all its money losers, sales would shrink by about 20 percent, but profits would double. And Wall Street would love it. But then what do you do next year? That's why Microsoft does business this way. It's better to grow earnings by 15 to 25 percent per year for several years than to show all the growth at once."
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