Microsoft Volume I

10845.478 - 10866.244 Steve Ballmer

Do you really think that these companies want to keep a whole separate ledger of what machines they shipped DOS on or Windows on versus what machines they shipped period? Wouldn't it just be easier if once a month or once a quarter they could just report to us their total shipments like they have to report to their investors anyway? And then we'll just send them an invoice for all their machines.