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microsoft getting 70% margins - a clarification

I was reading in Brian's blog yesterday that Microsoft is currently getting a ~70% profit margin on their windows and office products. what they forgot to take into account was how much the product-development and R&D costs were to develop office. So while 70% seems high at the moment, I'm sure a good portion of that is made up of paying themselves back for the ...