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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THE FP IS MINE!!!111

[Bold Marauder]

"We are confident in our long-term ability to grow revenue, profits and shareholder value through our innovation and execution. We have been successful in addressing a significant portion of our ongoing legal exposure, and all seven of our businesses are growing," said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive officer.

That's a couple of things that SCO can't say right about now.

FREE IPOD

[FreeIPODs]

Free iPod

I'd recommend doing the ancestry.com one, you can cancel it right after you sign up. Use your junk e-mail address of course :)

Yeah

[Anonymous Coward]

Frist p0st1!!!!!!!!!!

wow

[Anonymous Coward]

whoppee

Netcarft confirms

[Isbiten]

Windows stockholders are dieing. In this recent event that will bring more money to the stockholders, many of them fell off their chairs with a hearattack after getting the RSS feed from overlords.net

Say It Loud: Impeach George W. Bush: +1, Patriotic

[Anonymous Coward]

Please convey my urgent message to the United Nations for supervision of the November 2004 presidential election in the Untied States to prevent another election scam to select the world's most dangerous leader and fundagelical extremist

Thanks in advance,
Kilgore Trout

Re:Outstanding

[maxpublic]

What's amusing is that Republicans claim that Democrats are a bunch of thievin', cheatin' liars while they themselves are as pristine as new-fallen snow; and the Democrats do the exact same thing.

But to those of us with our heads screwed on straight - which means, those of us who aren't brainless borg-puppies, mouths wide open for party boss dick - BOTH the Democrats and Republicans are a bunch of thievin', cheatin' lying scumbags out to screw everyone and their mother for a weekend trip to Tahiti and the company of a teenage whore.

Yes, I know - I'm playing 'taunt the idiot party faithful'. But really, the party faithful deserve it for being so willfully blind to the sort of snakes their politicians really are.

Max