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Story: Ballmer gets it wrong in hardware blame game
Posted by: Steve (Monday 25 October 2004, 10:49 AM)
This is hilarious. Does Ballmer think it costs as little to produce each hardware component as it does to produce a copy of Windows? Let me open his eyes. Production time and assembly workers have to go into hardware production. Software cost is all at the outset, and Microsoft recovered all that a long time ago. Each CD costs about 50p each (factoring in packaging, etc) and they sell it for £100. Who's the real criminal here?
I live in hope that one day Microsoft will become about as significant as IBM. Still a force - unfortunately with their money they're not going to go away - but not one that everyone is reliant on.
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