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Re: Latest Gates FUD wrt Linux: Gates shoots his own company in the foot



On Fri, April 16 1999, "Peter L. Peres" <plp@actcom.co.il> wrote:
|  imho this is a brilliant shot in the foot of Microsoft by its own
|chairman because it is well-known that one of the few killer applications
|that have advanced MS Windows have been integrated office suites, that do
|mostly... word processing and spreadheets. 

I know a former Microsoft sales-person and he just told me that 80% of
Microsoft's revenues come from Office products.  I assume the other
20% are divided among the OS's and the other stuff.

So the Microsoft Office may have a much larger weight in M$'s
decisions than you might have expected (at least *I* didn't guess this
figure before he told me, I though that the OS business is what they
are leaning on).

--Amos

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