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A comment on Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the first time in 20 years.

Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by bstar on Friday April 29, 2011 @12:32PM (#2497938)
I guess I was most amazed that in 1991 Apple's profits were greater than Microsoft's. I was playing Ultima 6 and King's Quest V back then... I didn't know anything existed but the IBM PC.
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Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by protomyth on Friday April 29, 2011 @01:20PM (#2498138)
Office came out in 1990 and took a while to take over. MS-DOS wasn't as profitable as Windows would be.
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Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by CamperBob on Friday April 29, 2011 @02:22PM (#2498400)
Their margin was certainly higher. Macs were brutally expensive around that time. It was no trick at all to drop $10,000 on a high-end Mac system.
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