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Originally Posted by Feuerfalke
Interesting. So you say that the valuation, "low profit non-core department", has nothing to do with it's marketing value?
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i am saying that to microsoft its flightsim department was mere peanuts in its bigger picture, as can be illustrated for ex by its 2007 annual revenue surpassing $50 Billion
but like all companies riding an economic wave that ebbs and flows, when suddenly the bottom falls out of the world economy it makes cuts where it can, for microsoft those cuts would have been easiest and quickest in its non-core business area's. whatever tabloid speculators might say, once the economic system is more stable and its future easier to predict, the less important (but previously profitable) products for niche markets will reappear no doubt