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Microsoft has been subsidizing the PPCs for huge financial lost.
Microsoft have been losing money constantly subsidizing the sales of the PPCs.

It is not surprising but nothing to brag about a monopoly using monopoly money to enter a lateral market and grabbing a lead after and still losing money to keep the share.

It is like comparing the fastest runner with a rider on a 500cc motorcycle to see who makes it there 20 miles away first. This is ridiculous comparison and nothing to brag about.

If Microsoft was banned from using monopoly money from the desktop OS and Office to subsidize the PPCs, Microsoft's venture into the handheld would have been a failure.
Posted by: systemcleaner   Posted on: 11/14/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Article Says Market is Expanding  P. Douglas | 11/12/04
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Okay ...  Judas I. | 11/12/04
No it shouldn't get them foaming  FilledOut | 11/12/04
More than a slogan: it's a nightmare.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 11/14/04
You did.  John Zern | 11/14/04
Your problem  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 11/15/04
Microsoft has been subsidizing the PPCs for huge financial lost.  systemcleaner | 11/14/04
Well, if you say so  FilledOut | 11/14/04
actually Microsoft says so on it's balance sheet  hipparchus2000 | 11/14/04
And you read these sheets?  John Zern | 11/14/04
Why not?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 11/15/04
It boils down to APPS APPS  htotten | 11/14/04
Far easier if you shell out for MSDN you mean  hipparchus2000 | 11/14/04
And if it's easier to develop applications...  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 11/14/04
I did not know that!  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 11/14/04
Read on. Most of the anti-MS folks here..  John Zern | 11/14/04
Is that right?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 11/15/04

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