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How much $$$ is Microsoft really making with Vista?

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How much $$$ is Microsoft really making with Vista?

Check this out...

Vista - a $6 Billion Dollars Operating System - The best billions Bill Gates has ever spent - Softpedia

I don't really know what the markup of it is but let's assume that they make $100 off each license on average (which is a conservative estimate wouldn't you say?).

If my math is correct, that's $18 billion dollars as of the last public claim of 180 million copies sold.

Microsoft: 180 million Vista licenses now sold
If my math is correct again...that's TRIPLE the initial costs!

Of course they likely spent a little more after-market like for Jerry Seinfeld and stuff like that but I don't think it’s anywhere near $12 billion dollars.

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Re: How much $$$ is Microsoft really making with Vista?

Hi,

The article points out 15 million copies of Ultimate comes to $6bn -smart business for microsoft.

Then of course, they'd already done a lot of the work for Server 2008 - a sort of industrial version of Vista.

Also, Seven ( or whatever the new o/s will be called) is based on Vista, so they can make that in half the time Vista took - so I guess they save half the development cost .

Curious as to the story on OEM versions - wonder how much the big boys like Acer and Dell pay for each license.

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Re: How much $$$ is Microsoft really making with Vista?

Come to think of it, the 180 million doesn't include the volume business licenses bought before the official release.
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