The original quote from https://view.officeapps.live.c... : "As expected, Enterprise Services revenue declined 1 percent and was flat in constant currency, due to a lower volume of Windows Server 2003 custom support agreements."

I was guessing that this decline is because the revenue declined by tens of millions, which implies that they are likely making much more than that total in these contracts especially given that Server 2003 is still widely used. I checked "Productivity and Business Processes", "Intelligent Cloud" and "More Personal Computing" for this quarter and all of these individually total about $7-9 billion.

I have quite a good discussion about Custom Support and MS quarterly earnings here: https://www.reddit.com/r/micro...

From https://view.officeapps.live.c... : "As expected, Enterprise Services revenue declined 1 percent and was flat in constant currency, due to a lower volume of Windows Server 2003 custom support agreements."
I did not even know that Custom Support has to do with MS quarterly earnings until today! I wonder how much it actually costs for MS.

I wonder how Hollywood and the music industry have been taken over by lawyers in the first place.

Has anything been said about PAE or are the rumors wrong? (I remember it mentioning 4GB of RAM but also a 32-bit version for only 32GB of storage for example.)

I think it costs $12-$14 per 4Mbit chip back in 1993-1995.

One of my favorite is PX00307. Notice that it is about "PM vs. Windows" as it was about API calls only, which was the wrong way to make the decision.

OS/2 2.0 shipped with Win3.0. OS/2 2.1 shipped with Win3.1. I think yes both was based on source code from MS.

The entire OS/2 2.0 fiasco is one of my favorite topics. Remember MS's attempts to attack OS/2 later on, some of which was unethical I think?

32-bit Win10 still allow NTVDM to be enabled, though you have to enable the "legacy console" to run DOS apps.

Of course, the OS/2 2.0 fiasco is one of my favorite topics, but I know it is too late now.

They claim that they used the preorder funds as collateral to secure a $4 million loan.

Ah, "consumer" vs "business" computers. I wonder whether this even makes sense.