I was commenting on the success of Vista. It’s hard to tell based on revenues.
MS revenue includes a huge number of things, include it’sBusiness Division, Servers and Tools Divinsions, Entertainment (including x-box) Divisions, Investments. The billions of profit also includes these areas.
They have a tight lock on OEMs and separating out OS sales track with PC sales, and have to be considered in light of things that drive this market. You also cannot tell what portion of OEM OS sales are actually used - or desired - by the buyer.
It’s entirely possible for MS to have record revenues, huge revenues, and Vista still be a poor product or a major competitive mistake.
I’m not saying it is necessarily; just that it is not necessarily reflected in the profits. It likely wouldn’t be for some time. If ever, as MS invests in more and more non-OS areas.
IMHO, it is entirely possible for MS to make even more profit at some date years in future and no longer have a dominant OS share.
thanks for your reply.
If Apple would license their OS to computer manufactuers and get the prices down, they would slaughter M-soft's OS market share.