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Ballmer Sells Part of his Stake in Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the taking-the-money-and-sticking-around dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Financial Times reports that Steve Ballmer has sold part of his MS shares (my early morning math isn't very good, it seems a shade under 10%). Short of cash? Parking tickets? Or the start of a strategy to get rid of it all without causing too much upset in one go? No idea, but speculation is sure to be with us for a while."

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  1. No Conspiracy Here by moehoward · · Score: 5, Flamebait

    Geez. The guy is just diversifying his portfolio. He is the least diverse of all the software billionaires or Buffett.

    Unfricking believable that this is actually a slashdot story.

    I mean, come one. Isn't it amazing enough that he mades $12 billion or whatever on MSFT? Now, the implication of this being on slashdot is that this smells of some sort of bad omen for MS. It's a little late for that given that HE HAS $12 BILLION WORTH OF STOCK!!! (insert Sam Kinison "oh! oh! OooooH!" here)

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  2. Re:not only the president.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Of course, this could have been written by a NY Times journalist so take it with a grain of salt.

    Thank you Rush Limbaugh. It's good to see that you get your news from a Florida Television Station's web site that provides deep investigative journalism such as Fla. Man Charged After Allegedly Placing Dead Bird On Fence , rather than from trash like the NY Times. You really are a connoisseur of fine journalism. I'll bet that they declared the poles closed, the ballots counted and Bubba the winner on November 6, 2000. At least the NY Times admits when they've been hosed.

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