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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!."
there was about to be a whole bunch of HP stock dumped on market as those fired 25,000 HP employees filed through HR and headed out on the street.
Is Microsoft doing the same, ie they are purchasing back stock so that the employee 'benefits' in stocks don't look like a worthless benefit? Or is Microsoft looking to be one of the last standing on Wall Street by saying "look, our stock has kept its value far better than others so buy ours so we ar not the only ones doing it."?
Or have there been any MS firings lately that I missed? When's Balmer leaving?
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
You would have done better with Google. This little pump and dump exercise is going to be a good time to make that conversion. Advertising will sruvive a recession/depression, the non free desktop and office suit business model from the 1980s won't. No, they won't be saved by Xbox or Zune. Greedy restrictions systems are going to bite the dust sooner than later.
You failed english class didn't you?
Just like Hitler and the Nazis were more mature than the Jews? MICROSOFT IS THE SIXTH REICH! BILL GATES IS HITLER!!!
retard, advertising was in a bubble as well. Click fraud is a massive problem and google can't deal with it. Last year, everybody saw huge drops in adword revenue. They're doing more and more flash/image based ads since they need the money. Advertising is failure, much like you, you cockucking ass felcher.
I now know literally no-one I consider technically knowledgable who uses Windows as their primary machine.
Holy fuck, you're surrounded by fanboys. MS has succeeded against all odds from FUD pumping lunatics such as you and your fanboy buddies.
MS dominates the desktop. MS Dominates corporate servers. Dominates data centers. IIS is poised to overtake Apache on the webserver side.. Shit your brain must be about to melt. Can you handle all that? I guess you can console yourself that it runs on your router or or that it runs on supercomputers (LOL, brilliant rationale to use it on the desktop). Maybe in a couple of years you'll overtake Win2k in market share. Or maybe the iphone will overtake Linux. Hilarious !
OTOH, Linux is too easy to break. Like this bug which was recently found... System crash on inserting SD card
Put in a SD Card. BOOM ! INSTANT CRASH. A Two year old could crash linux.