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Flabergasted!
From the Washington Post:
But when Boies asked him to identify what portion of Microsoft’s profits come from the sale of its operating system vs. other products, Schmalensee said he could not provide a precise number because Microsoft doesn’t use computers to track the data.
“They record operating system sales by hand on a piece of paper,” he said. “The state of Microsoft’s internal accounting systems don’t always rise to the level of sophistication one might expect from a firm as successful as it it.”
Bwah! (sputter sputter) Wha! HUH!?! WHAT!?!?
They’ve got to be kidding!