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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by Touche on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:57AM (#7184025)
But this is the attitude Microsoft needs to eliminate. The days of making money on operating systems is rapidly fading away. They already gave away Windows 8.1 as a free upgrade, so they're aware of it.

An open source XP would get many hackers interested in Windows, something they desperately need.

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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by mjolk on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @12:27PM (#7185159)
Citation needed.

They are definitely making money on closed-source operating systems and operating system tools:

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by tripzilch on Friday February 07, 2014 @09:16AM (#7196284)
> They already gave away Windows 8.1 as a free upgrade

It wasn't free--it took a couple of hours of my time!

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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by hifier on Thursday February 06, 2014 @12:11AM (#7188843)
Umm, I don't buy Apple computers for their backlit keyboards...
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