Microsoft makes the bucks... (Score 1)

...from the people who buy the software. Mostly companies. Obviously, the $6.something billion did not come from pirated copies. That was, of course, from monies paid for whatever services or products Microsoft provided. Notice the 'buy' and 'paid' portion of the last sentences...I'm not sure if you caught it since I've noticed some people here don't like to read the full Monty... namely Mr. Programmer blunte up there... Oh and by the way, those statistics about market share come from records of 'bought' copies and independent researchers who count the number of 'licensed' (i.e. paid-for) copies of particular software. Some people...