Microsoft make money from their software in other computers?

[Rye]

I know Microsoft don't make their own computers, so they make money by licensing their software (WIndows 7 etc) to be used by other manufacturers ? How much would they make by doing that/

[carbonize]

If memory serves with XP the manufacturers were quoting that £70 of the sales price was for Windows. I think it's cheaper now because they no longer supply you with a physical copy of Windows as back up but instead just have the files on a recovery partition.

[Dredgy]

About $60 billion a year...

[tazfan]

even tho some computers come with windows on an partion it still cost the same as if it was to come on an disk beacuse of the license i think they sell it and an cost off around 60 to 70 pounds on each computer the comes with windows

[Mitcho1989]

would it be much cheaper by creating a recovery partition instead of supplying a cd? i cant imagine it would make too much difference, with the prices of CDs being as low as they are.

[LH-Danny]

(Apr-21-2010 03:36 AM)Mitcho1989 Wrote:  would it be much cheaper by creating a recovery partition instead of supplying a cd? i cant imagine it would make too much difference, with the prices of CDs being as low as they are.

When I bought my laptop (just over a year ago), it was supplied with no kind of disc whatsoever. The only way to reinstall the OS was to hit F8 during startup, which was basically on a recovery partition.

Within the default OS it was supplied with, they offered a backup utility, where it would copy everything on the recovery patition onto DVD. That way, if anything went wrong I could use the DVD to reinstall the OS.

I wouldn't use their crappy default one anyway, it's overloaded with their own software which you don't need.

[Mitcho1989]

i seem to have 2 different programs on here i can make a backup disc with. (mine also has a recovery partition instead of a supplied CD btw)

one looks like its a microsoft one that comes with windows 7, and the other is a recovery disc creator provided by cyberlink

it keeps popping up with reminders to create it, but i still havent yet

[Thor Erik]

actually MS don't care wether or not there is a disk with the machine, the license fee is the same for them, as previously it was the computer manufacturer that produced and printed the disks bundeled.

[innovati]

[quote:Dredgy]About $60 billion a year...[/quote]

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[johnfreemaniam]

i dont think so much...they make most money by selling OS only

(Mar-04-2010 10:06 PM)Ryan Wrote:  I know Microsoft don't make their own computers, so they make money by licensing their software (WIndows 7 etc) to be used by other manufacturers ? How much would they make by doing that/