Comment Deferred sales (Score 1) 319
Yeah, and kid$ like you have been $aying this $ince '98, too. *Yawn*
To be fair it must be pointed out that M$ ran an $18 billion loss in 1998. Subsequently they may have gone over to Enron-style accounting to shuffle the numbers. Now even with all the voodoo economics, M$ is running a loss. Things would be even more bleak without tricks like deferred sales.
So if it were up to just the numbers, they would have been long gone.