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Those were free, this isn't
IE and WMP were both free, with no hope of ever being sold or making a profit. Office already earns MS many millions of dollars every year. Given MS' continuous attempts to branch out and find new revenue streams, why do you think they'd give up such a lucrative one because they're "not happy" with Apple's success?

As for software as a service, I'll believe it when people actually buy in. Like renting music, which no one is doing, I see this as a non-starter.
Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 08/07/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Finally an intelligent business decision...  jasonp@... | 08/07/06
I agree  ebernet | 08/07/06
Office will be dropped too, you watch  DarthRidiculous | 08/07/06
How many fools have said this with every version of Office.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/07/06
Mac Office makes a lot of money for MS  tic swayback | 08/07/06
Money isn't the problem. Vista is ...  bportlock | 08/07/06
Can't give up a guaranteed revenue stream  tic swayback | 08/07/06
They wont have to  DarthRidiculous | 08/07/06
Those were free, this isn't  tic swayback | 08/07/06
"integrate tightly with Vista"  msolgeek | 08/08/06
integration, or lack thereof...  nix_hed | 08/09/06
The threat to cancel Mac Office 97 is certainly the strongest...  Spikey_Mike | 08/08/06
MBU is too important to MS  Ken_z | 08/07/06
MS needs Office for Mac...  doctorSpoc | 08/09/06
Keep thinking that  DarthRidiculous | 08/09/06
agree but only in part...  doctorSpoc | 08/09/06
Must be hard...  Richard Flude | 08/07/06
Except that MS uses Visual Studio and CodeWarrior...  olePigeon | 08/08/06
Mac OS 10 on Win XP PRO  jdroost | 08/07/06
No  Ken_z | 08/07/06
Nope  tic swayback | 08/08/06
VM and O/Ss  doc_cotton | 08/09/06
OS X is DarwinBSD.  linuxiac | 08/09/06
MS inovation at its finest  not of this world | 08/08/06
That reminds me to un-install this piece of junk from my  michael_t | 08/08/06
how do you un-install this piece of junk  doc_cotton | 08/09/06
MS WRITES OFFICE MAC TO APPEASE REGULATORS, NOT MAKE MONEY  cornfreak | 08/08/06
Hey tic swayback, what about costs?  thegestunkenaraygun | 08/09/06
It is a profit center  tic swayback | 08/09/06
agree in part...  doctorSpoc | 08/09/06
Bottom Line.. who cares!?!  doctorSpoc | 08/09/06
VPC a piece of crap (performance)  Gene(ius):) | 08/09/06
VPC (for PCs) a piece of crap  doc_cotton | 08/09/06

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