Microsoft To Buy Back $40bn of Its Shares

phantomflanflinger writes "As you may have heard already, Microsoft have announced their intentions to buy back $40 billion in stock from their investors, in the biggest single buy-back plan in business history. The announcement has given Microsoft shares a small gain but they still stand significantly below their level in January — before Microsoft's unsolicited bid for Yahoo!. The announcement of the plan has also created new speculation about a now-or-never deal with Yahoo!."

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Re:$40,000,000,000

[Colin Smith]

It's also putting all your eggs in one basket, so a single really big problem (like Linux, Open Document Format, or Google) could wipe out virtually all of your money at once.

 

Re:It's funny, they've been having a lot of troubl

[db32]

This is entirely off topic, but is your sig seriously a knick knack paddy wack/Dune combo? Mod me down all you want, but for the love of all that is holy please please someone stab him in the eye!