In its 10-K annual report filing, that is…in the filing, it blamed the decline of its own software business on Microsoft’s, including Windows Media Player, along with free software for creating and streaming audio and video files over the Internet, as part of the Windows operating systems.
“The weak demand for our business products during this period (the past three years) has been caused primarily by Microsoft’s continuing practice of bundling … Windows Media Player and server software for free with its Windows NT operating system products, which we believe is an illegal practice,” the company wrote.
Ok, some funny statements in the report: “Advertising. The decrease in advertising revenues in 2003 was due in part to our removal of paid advertising from certain Web pages and the increased use of our advertising space to promote our digital media subscription services.” Umm, isn’t that called filling up the unsold inventory?
Read the full 10-K report here…
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