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Originally Posted by HarryT
It should also be noted that Microsoft make most of their money from business sales, not personal ones. An awful lot of the world's largest companies run their email systems on Exchange Server, their databases on SQL Server, their information systems on Sharepoint Server, etc. That's where the real money is, not desktops.
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Exactly.
Those are long term commitments and recurring revenue generators.
One "sale" doesn't generate a few dollars or even a few hundred dollars in profit but thousands to millions.
And, because of the interlocking synergy of their offerings, selling a customer on one of their corporate products brings along, sooner or later, sales of the others.
It is a very stable business to be in and MS has managed it extremely well, beating off all challengers for 20 years and counting. And Ballmer had at least a bit to do with it.