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Jesus, between this and Android, Microsoft's cash cow has now been fully commoditized. Ouch.

Actually because of patents royalties Microsoft gets more money from Android than Windows Phone.

Every sold Android phone is putting few bucks in MS pocket.

I think that the total Android revenue was greater than the total Windows Phone revenue quite a while ago. I don't know if it still holds true now that WinPho sales are more than a whisker over none.

Can you cite any sources for this?

Here are a couple (I only took a quick glance), as many articles pop up with a search:

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/372628/microsoft-makes-bi...

http://allthingsd.com/20130718/microsofts-making-more-money-...

Because Pages and Numbers are free? Oh no, no no. You misunderstand how this works...

Jeez, it would sure be helpful if you would explain it to me, then. How worthless is this comment?

LibreOffice is free, has been for years, but MS still sells a lot of Office.

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