Where Microsoft Makes Its Profits [Chart]

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Posted February 10, 2010 at 10:24pm by iClarified

Microsoft is the largest, most profitable software company in the world but where do they make their money?

Silicon Alley Insider has posted a "Chart of the Day" which illustrates that Microsoft's profits "are still being generated by the same engines that have driven Microsoft for years: Office, Windows, and its server division. (Meanwhile, its entertainment and devices division is only recently profitable again, and its online division is a money pit.)"

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Where Microsoft Makes Its Profits [Chart]

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WOXING - February 11, 2010 at 10:20am

Another apple fan...... Bravo

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Enrico - February 12, 2010 at 1:13am

OSX is actually based on the BSD core, not Linux.

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Zod - February 12, 2010 at 2:25am

OSX is UNIX based core. Quote the apple web site. "Mac OS X is the worlds most advanced operating system. Built on a rock-solid UNIX foundation and designed to be simple and intuitive, its what makes the Mac innovative, highly secure, compatible and easy to use. Quite simply, there is nothing else like it." http://www.apple.com/au/macosx/what-is-macosx/

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Cyber Mafia - February 11, 2010 at 4:39am

Lets compare with Apple Software Sales and Micorsoft Sales. Microsoft Office and Server Tools and Windows Impressive ... I am not taking side of Microsoft but yeah hard to say they are the Name of the Game Microsoft.

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Zod - February 11, 2010 at 4:49am

Toyota sell plenty of Camrys world wide, more so than the Lexus, but it doesn't mean the Camry is by far the better car. Is it??

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Jay - February 11, 2010 at 12:01am

How long until they give up the Zune?

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poullos - February 11, 2010 at 6:27am

Big companies like MS may sell/provide something unprofitable because they MUST enter that market. They won't drop zune because it's unprofitable. They will be there since their competitors have a product in that market. They will only drop something id it's not profitable AND affects their image/name.

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