Microsoft Vista Cost USD$10billion
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Microsoft Vista is here and the good news is that CD or is it DVD you bought is worth every penny.
Microsoft’s costs per employee are about $200,000 a year, with a total of 10,000 engineers working on it for 6 years, the estimated payroll costs alone for Vista hover around $10 billion.
$10 billion freaking billion for a operating system, this is a huge sum of money considering the fact that the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb during World War II hovers around that sum, not to mention the amount spend almost double certain country’s national budget.
The best part is, Microsoft predicted revenue from now till June 2007 for Windows Vista would be $11 billion. I guess $10 billion is nothing as we all knows that 10,000 engineers did not work on Windows alone for 6 straight years, possibly half of them are onto some other Microsoft projects as well, with Windows Vista off the radar screen Firefox and Google better watch out.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer looks excited during the launch of Windows Vista.
Tags: Cost of Windows Vista, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Windows Vista
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kirk
August 4th, 2009what is this idiot math you use, 10 billion on payroll are you kidding me, vista is not even worth one penny much less the couple hundred dollars these pigs and Microsoft charge for it. Go linux or go home. and for crying out loud go to school.