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Hey tic swayback, what about costs?
I agree with your pointing out that MS makes millions in
revenues on Mac Office, but I can't help playing CPA (Am one)....

The other side of the medallion is cost. How much does it cost
to reprogram and maintain Mac Office? If their return on
investment is below their overall return, the argument for letting
revenues go becomes more compelling. Why lower overall
profitability, and hence the stock price? From a corporate point
of view if there aren't more profitable alternatives to invest the
capital they need to 'produce' Mac Office, then the logical
alternative is to return this capital to shareholders. At least that
what Corporate Finance 101 tells us.

Just my 2 cents worth.
Posted by: thegestunkenaraygun   Posted on: 08/09/06 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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