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Ballmer Sells Part of his Stake in Microsoft
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."
Microsoft said the sales were undertaken so that Mr Ballmer could diversify his financial interests.
my guess is that some of those interests may include this, this, and if he's lucky after all that, maybe this.
Mike
Accountants!
Accountants!
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Maybe he sells them to BG. Parking tickets? For wrong parking of an air-craft carrier?
-Is the meaning of life vanity, or is vanity the meaning of life?
...and bought RedHat. Here's to the future baby!
...is sell those damn Seahawks .
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Of his ADHD problem?
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I !!! ::whoa, the stock is worth that?!::
LOVE !!
THIS !!
SELL !!!
YEEEAAAAHHHH !!!!
Vonal Declosion
He's investing in the drug industry. Think about it:
a large market of people who have no choice but to buy your product, an army of goons with automatic weapons, the government in your hip-pocket, and all the Latina sex slaves you could want?
Hmm. Doesn't he already have all that at M$? Perhaps my theory is off.
The Developer Dance is murder on the body.
He's probably begun reading Slashdot for his investment advice and now believes that .NET will soon fail.
Of course, Slashdot is riddled with Millionaires.
Amazing magic tricks
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After getting access to the Windows source code, China has discovered and created exploits/backdors that will threaten any computer running windows. They have already hacked the Pentagon, and have downloaded the whole TIA database.
Ballmer knows this, and he is selling his stock to get cash enough to buy out a small tropical island, where he can hide while the DOJ and every luser on the planet marches on to Redmond, torches and pitchforks in hand.
He finaly saw a Gnu/Linux desktop running.
SCO's!
To whom has he sold this stock?
He probably doesn't know. His stock broker probably sold the stock to some other stock brokers. My guess is that they did that in a crowded place with a lot of people screaming, all buying or selling some stock too. Those places are called stock exchange, and they are a big part of any modern economy.
Is this a step towards some other interest group having a share of microsoft in exchange...
Typically one sell stock in exchange for cash. Typically one would either re-invest that cash in some other stock (this is called spreading the risk, or my like my grandmother used to say don't put all your eggs in the same basket), or maybe he spent the cash like on a new house (well a few houses !), a private jet, or whatever he felt like at the moment.
Yossarian!
--an unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys--
Yeah, if they had to give everyone a huge raise, the profit margins might nosedive below 82%, maybe even below 79% *shudder*. If it ever came to that, they'd be better off just throwing in the towel.
Steve Balmer diversifies into buying SCO Grou at their asking rpice of $1 billion..
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