Microsoft Announces Dividend and Stock Buyback Program

neile writes "Microsoft just announced some of their plans for their large cash reserves. This includes moving to quarterly dividend payments of $0.08 a share (up from $0.16 annually), and a special one-time dividend of $3.00 a share in December. The Board of Directors also approved a four-year, $30 billion, stock buyback plan."

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Heaven Forfend

[Master of Transhuman]

that they spend any of that $50 billion actually advancing the state of the art in computer science.

Oh, no, we need a stock buyback plan. Definitely more important for Billy Boy.

Fucking assholes. It's absolutely amazing how scummy Bill Gates actually is.

I always wondered what Melinda - an MS employee - thought of him being directly quoted as saying that MS could hire women at half the salary of men and make them do the grunt work because "they're only women."

Of course, once you snag a billionaire, I guess any feminist thoughts you might ever have had go out the window.

Microsoft must be destroyed! By any means necessary!

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