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."

Comments

Re:seven businesses?

[Anonymous Coward]

Troll
MS is the biggest force in behind shutting spammers down today.

Re:Got to be a catch in their someplace

[johannesg]

If Bill Gates had any care for the economy overal, he wouldn't have raped and pillaged the software industry until nothing was left but smoking ruins. The fact he has done this means he cares for nothing but the accumulation of wealth and power.

Re:Outstanding

[Master of Transhuman]

"then by definition all public corporations behave unethically."

By George, I think he's got it!

Yes, all corporations are by definition "unethical" (whatever that means - which is basically nothing - I prefer the term "crooked" which means something).

All corporations are creatures of the state, manipulators of the state, and beneficiaries of the state. Since the state is by definition a monopoly on coercion, all corporations are coercive entities (varying only in the degree that they actually exercise any of their coercive "rights" on their customers).

The free market - the TRUE free market - does not recognize the validity of a corporation. A company, yes. A corporation, no.

I can only hope when Osama (or the CIA posing as Osama) decide to drop some more planes into buildings or detonate a "dirty bomb", that Microsoft is one of the targets.