lug-bg: [off]
- Subject: lug-bg: [off]
- From: raptor@email.domain.hidden (raptor)
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:00:49 +0300
http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/f2abee2df7582f36cc2569a4007e4ab9/44c805e8bca340accc256d320008624d!OpenDocument
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By removing the choice, the cost of the operating system is effectively hidden in the overall cost of the componentry. That cost, industry sources tell me, is typically $US140 ? 160, or around $NZ300 per machine.
In a filing with the US Security and Exchange Commission in December last year, Microsoft revealed that it really has only two profit-making units, Windows and Office, but that the operating profits from those were an astronomical 85% and 79% respectively. That puts the real cost of your $300 OS at around $45.
IDC reckon PC sellers shifted 363,250 new machines in New Zealand last
year. If only 95% of them shipped with Windows, that makes for an
operating systems bill of more than $100 million, or around $85 million
in gross profit.
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