> I looked up MSFT's latest financial release > (operating results for Sept 02 quarter, Oct 17). > They had $7.4B revenue and $2.7B net income. > EBIT was $4B and they paid $1.3B in taxes. > In the Sept 01 quarter (a really bad quarter) > EBIT was $1.9B and they still paid $600M in taxes. > Do you still think that proprietary software is not > a great business model? >
You missed my feeble attempt at sarcasm with my MicroSoft comment....But can anyone provide a quick update for 2002 of the numbers and accounting techniques explained in the following from fall 2000? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/09/MN3707.DTL -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3