Geez, I don't know about that Jeff.

Have you seen the prices for Office 2000. They parallel Office 97. And if I had a memory I could probably say Office 95 too.

Now there's real PROFITS for you. Reviews suggest that the version is mainly new WEB capability and MSDE with a few useful features thrown in. Imagine the bucks to be made on that. Way way more per sale than a single sale of Windows 'user' varieties, and I'm talking the "upgrades" here! And it is estimated that MS has well over 80% of that market.

I think that MS makes money anyway it can, just as any other company does. i cannot believe that they lose any money on language compilers regardless of who says what.

Cheers,

Jim N



>I would imagine that anything to support the dominance of the Windows OS is really the goal - that is what makes the bucks.
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