Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 05, 2004 01:08 PM
Or does anyone else think ``THIS IS HUGE!''?
I have to wonder how many unlicensed copies of Microsoft products are running in China. I'm certain it was one heck of a lot but it was a bunch of desktops that Microsoft thought it would eventually get properly licensed and paid for. Even if they dropped to the price of Office to US$10 (which would be unheard of, right?) that would amount to US$2B over the lifetime of this deal. The price of MSFT is bound to be affected by this loss of potential sales.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 05, 2004 01:08 PMOr does anyone else think ``THIS IS HUGE!''?
I have to wonder how many unlicensed copies of Microsoft products are running in China. I'm certain it was one heck of a lot but it was a bunch of desktops that Microsoft thought it would eventually get properly licensed and paid for. Even if they dropped to the price of Office to US$10 (which would be unheard of, right?) that would amount to US$2B over the lifetime of this deal. The price of MSFT is bound to be affected by this loss of potential sales.
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