[lbo-talk] Microsoft Plans An End Run Around, Oh, Everyone

[Michael Pollak]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:


> MSFT loses money on almost everything but Windows. It loses something
> like $100 on every Xbox it sells.

I have a silly question.  Aren't these Xboxes completely subcontracted?
If MS sells them for $100 less than they buy them, why don't the companies
who make them buy them in the stores and sell them back to MS?

Milo Minderbinder