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

  • Thread starter Thread starter rasmasyean
  • Start date Start date
R

rasmasyean

Guest
Check this out...

'Vista - a $6 Billion Dollars Operating System - The best billions Bill
Gates has ever spent - Softpedia'
(http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vista-a-6-Billion-Dollars-Operating-System-44096.shtml)

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'
(http://arstechnica.com/journals/mic...ater-180-million-vista-licenses-sold-in-total)
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.


--
rasmasyean
 
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.

SIW2


--
SIW2
 
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.


--
rasmasyean
 
Back
Top