jcl Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 The profit margin on (desktop) Windows is 85%. The development of WinXP was paid for by Win9x and W2k; if you bought WinXP you were really paying for Vista and Vienna. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 All I have to say is...Microsoft is making loads of money because they now off their OEM partners 2 free round trip airline tickets for each copy of XP purchased and activated - like I said - it costs them about $2 a disc (I believe they charge Dell - their biggest customer - around $25 a license Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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