That's $3 million a year. Throw in marketing and customer research and the number is probably around $5 million. Now how much do we make on the software? NOTHING! It's FREE!

So Microsoft spends 5mill a year on a product that no one in the Macintosh community wanted, needed, or would use if Apple wasn't bundling it with the OS. What's your point?

I am sorry, that is an obvious flame and I would not normally post such a thing to this board, but I just don't follow your logic. Eudora light, Netscape Email, Claris Emailer where all vastly better (and also free) products that Microsoft is trying to whipe out with OE. You said yourself, that MS makes no money from OE for the Mac, so why make it when there are already half a dozen perfectly good alternatives? Market share and market domination.