17 Jul
2003
17 Jul
'03
3:47 p.m.
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Mike Hearn wrote: [...]
As we might end up cloning large parts of the Internet Explorer infrastructure someday, it's worth knowing roughly how much Microsoft invested/lost on it:
$1.25 billion dollars
Bah. I'm sure it's peanuts compared to what Microsoft invested in and earned from the sale of the various versions of Microsoft Windows that Wine replaces.
And I would say that Wine is starting to score points on that front (even if there is still a lot of work). So it's not like such a statistic should deter or discourage us from doing whatever we feel is necessary.
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