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> Microsoft made money by selling their OS I think Microsoft cash cow is their Office Suite. To run that suite you still need a Microsoft OS and recently their
by jussij 12y ago
> Microsoft made money by selling their OS
I think Microsoft cash cow is their Office Suite. To run that suite you still need a Microsoft OS and recently their Office 365 cloud version is also showing strong growth.
- tim333 12y agoI imagine Microsoft still make a good bit of cash from OS sales but mostly from manufacturers buying in bulk for new PCs, not so much from individual upgrades. It's the individual upgrades they are giving for free. Dunno if it's China only or if we can get them elsewhere?
- superuser2 12y ago>to run that suite you still need a Microsoft OS False. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/office-university http://www.microsoft.com/mac/office-university
- couradical 12y agoThat works until you get into anything complicated. Recently, I had a spreadsheet that our finance team built that provided different calculated values (for a multi table aggregation, nothing simple for sure) on Excel Windows and Excel OS X. This is not an uncommon problem - I've seen it a handful of times. Excel for OS X is at about 90+% parity with Excel for Windows. This only bites you occasionally, but when you are a spreadsheet driven org (e.g. Finance groups in a company) you often need the performance/top-end feature set of Excel for Windows.