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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Matt on Saturday 24 Oct 2009 06:41 : \____
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>>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
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>>>>> ____/ nessuno on Friday 23 Oct 2009 19:16 : \____
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2354664,00.asp
>>>>> Watch Windows. $4.28bn last year, now just $2.62bn.
>>>> Those numbers are quite surprising. That's what Matt might call a pretty
>>>> large derivative.
>>>
>>> Their Windows-division operating income the past quarter is less than
>>> half what it was a year ago.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Luckily for the trolls, that drop doesn't mean that the old Windows boxes
>>>> magically disappear.
>>>
>>> It doesn't mean that a lot fewer people are using Windows on new
>>> computers.
>>>
>>> I expect it's mostly that piracy, the threat of piracy,
>>
>> Threat???
>
>
> A threat to their short-term revenues, not to their usage share.
Agreed. :-D
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