You seem to be forgetting all the other companies that make tons of money off the Windows standard, starting with the hardware companies.
From today:
http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070220:MTFH22215_2007-02-20_19-43-38_N20195686&type=comktNews&rpc=44
AMD chief says Vista impact underestimated
Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system will give a bigger boost to technology spending than many people now expect, Hector Ruiz, chief executive of computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., said on Tuesday.
"We're very optimistic about Vista and we think people are underestimating the impact it will have," Ruiz told Reuters after a speech at the Detroit Economic Club.
I view Vista as I do a vampire.
A vampire can't enter your home and kill you, unless you invite him in.
I've been on microsoft since 1983, after seeing Vista, for the first time in my life, I have been looking at Mac's.
Microsoft is pissing off too many people.
As for Vista making money for folks? Sure, all them folks out buying 4 gig of memory to make the damned thing work worth a crap.