There are hundreds of mutual funds that hold Microsoft stock; these include technology mutual funds and large-cap funds. Furthermore, since Microsoft is part of the S&P 500 and sold on the NASDAQ market, its stock is part of tracker funds, like ETFs and index funds. So if you have a 401K or even a few mutual funds somewhere, then most likely YOU OWN MSFT SHARES. If you don't have a 401k or any investments, then you must be extremely poor, which is in alignment with the fact that you're extremely ignorant.
No, you're a vacuous idiot. I didn't understand whatever point you were trying to make because you didn't write anything. You just wrote some bullets about revenues and profits. What is the point? English isn't your first language, is it?
Now, of course the problem is with MSFT. The stock price is not going up because shareholders do not see any upside in growth. That is the fundamental problem. On the other hand, look at IBM, another megacorporation. They've reinvented themselves over the last five years, going from a hardware company to a services company. Shareholders see the upside in IBM, and their stock reflects that. See: MSFT vs IBM over last 5 years.
So if MSFT does not have growth upside, then their stock will stagnate. And since that is indeed the case, then MSFT has choices to increase shareholder value: (1) buy back shares to increase EPS, or (2) pay (more) dividends.
Idiot. The point of investing is to get something in return. If the share price is not going up, then the company has to pay out dividends. You don't just buy stock to buy stock. Looks like you've never invested in anything in your entire life.
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I only use real Unix, like Solaris and Mac OS X, rather than cheap, reverse-engineered, and possibly illegal copies like Linux. At my age and high salary, I should be living like an adult and not steal digital content (like Unix software, movies, or music). I guess if you're young, stupid, and/or poor, then you can go ahead and do immoral things (like touching yourself at night as you stroke your neckbeard, which is what 90% of you do).
I completed a BS, MS, and PhD is computer science and engineering in the US. My grad school was top-20. I learned that surviving in undergrad is what's important, just as excelling in grad school and your later career is what's important there. Some of my friends from high school couldn't hack the surviving part, and I myself barely kept my head above water. Indeed, I often wondered what was the point of the six calculus classes, three physics classes, and three chemistry classes that I was taking in my first two years. In retrospect, it's true that they're to teach breadth in the fundamental sciences that, yes, do come into play later on in your career; however, they also serve as predators that eliminate the weak. If you don't have the stomach and focus to make your way through those classes when you're 18-21, what about when you're facing high-pressure deadlines throughout the rest of your career?
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Next to gcc, vim is the greatest open-source project ever created. I've used vim every day of my life since discovering it back in 1996 as a replacement for basic 'vi' on a Sun Sparcstation. I'm currently using vim to write software on my MacBook Pro in a terminal window.
I started off learning vi on a DEC workstation back in the early 1990s while trying to keep my head above water as a freshman CS major. Since then, I've used vim inside of Visual Studio (with a plugin), inside of Eclipse (with a plugin), as the editor for the mutt mail client, and in a hundred other contexts.
It is completely inexcusable for Google to botch up a high-profile app release like this. Google has thousands of engineers, PMs, and testers, and they can't release an app for Gmail, one of their flagship user-facing products? There is absolutely no reason for this to happen other than complete and total incompetence. And you cannot blame this on iOS 5 because the beta 1 was released back in June.
I don't understand the relevance of these estimates of Samsung and HTC shipment figures, for three reasons:
1. The shipment estimates are made by analyst companies, not by Samsung or HTC themselves. Samsung, as of last summer, has stopped providing shipment numbers of its smartphones and tablets. Then these other companies (Strategy Analytics and Canalys) step in with their own estimates that are dodgy at best. How do they get their numbers? If Samsung is not providing their shipment numbers, why should we believe a third party?
2. One shipment to a vendor (e.g. Best Buy) does not map to one sale to an end consumer. A vendor can always return the item back to the seller.
3. What is counted as a smartphone? Phone manufacturers are cramming more smartphone features into low-end devices; remember that even the most basic Symbian phone was counted by Nokia as a smartphone, and look how those ostensibly great sales turned out for Nokia.
Note that Apple always lists its sales in its SEC statements. And these are sales figures to the end consumer, not shipments.
"So Jobs proposed a deal: he would allow Xerox to buy a hundred thousand shares of his company for a million dollars—its highly anticipated I.P.O. was just a year away—if parc would “open its kimono.” A lot of haggling ensued. Jobs was the fox, after all, and parc was the henhouse. What would he be allowed to see? What wouldn’t he be allowed to see? Some at parc thought that the whole idea was lunacy, but, in the end, Xerox went ahead with it."
LOL @ the android fanboys who regale in the microscopic victories of having script-blocking software running on their Android phones. Time to pop the champagne!
Meanwhile, Apple and iOS are empowering users with devastatingly awesome features like Siri AI and an app store catalog that's now over 500,000. Oh yeah, Apple just sold 4.5 million iPhones 4s units during this weekend. When will the Android fanboys realize that it's not about hardware specs but overall integration between OS software, hardware, and 3rd-party apps? The iPhone empowers people (you, me, doctors, businessmen, engineers, scientists, etc.). Android distracts people with irrelevant details (is that 4.2" screen better than this 3.97" screen)?
So basically, you can continue wasting your days trying to hack your Android browser, or you can do something useful with your life.
Let's make something crystal clear: Jobs accomplished more in his time than any 20 of you put together. He defined and redefined personal computing, the GUI desktop, movie computer animation, digital audio, smartphones, tablets, retail sales, and more. Oh yeah, the WWW was invented on a computer that Jobs created.
What have any of you done? Redefined how to wear a ponytail and bitch on message boards all day? The best you can hope to accomplish is to donate your organs.
Acer and Asus have signed up for Thunderbolt and are expected to deliver PCs with Thunderbolt next year. Except more motherboards to have Thunderbolt as well, and once that occurs, Dell and other has-beens will do the same.
Since the screen is E-Ink based, the browsing experience is pretty poor due to the low refresh rate of the screen. Scrolling is twitchy and often laggy.
So why didn't you just get an iPad? I use my iPad 2 for web browsing, reading, playing games, checking stocks, watching music videos, etc. etc. etc.
I considered a Kindle for reading research papers, but I also found it to be very poor with a very slow page turn and slow zooming in and out. It was like doing telnet on a 28.8 kbaud modem.
I don't know or care if these accusations about Microsoft are true.
I think the more important question is why should the government care about how Microsoft is running their operating system or web browser. They are the dominant operating system and web browser, but there are other competitors in this space and other alternatives.
Yet another example of government pushing its nose into something it doesn't understand in the name of the public good.
The best 802.11n home routers right now are the Apple Airport Extreme and the Cisco E4200. The key feature to look for is dual-band: you want to keep 802.11a/b traffic on 2.4Ghz and 802.11n on 5.0Ghz. That will allow you to achieve 802.11n's upper bound of 450 Mbps without baggage from 802.11a/b. If you want the most effortless setup, get the Airport Extreme; the accessory Airport Express devices will also allow you to extend the wireless range of your network.
Apple has done an excellent job here. Most likely all you anti-Apple zealots have never had intellectual property to protect. You probably don't have much property, period, aside from the rubber bands that tie up your ponytails. But those of us who work for a living and make money off our brains understand the importance of protecting intellectual property. I have 1 issued USPTO patent and a dozen others filed (some rejected, some pending). Each patent represents at least 9 months' research and development work. I would be seriously pissed if a competitor stole my ideas and tried to get rich by stealing them. You would be, too, if you actually thought up something new. Enjoy your neckbeards and your lifetime job as keyboard-jockey trolls.
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I'm not in "IT". I don't answer pagers, I don't know how to set up Exchange, and I don't wash windows.
There are hundreds of mutual funds that hold Microsoft stock; these include technology mutual funds and large-cap funds. Furthermore, since Microsoft is part of the S&P 500 and sold on the NASDAQ market, its stock is part of tracker funds, like ETFs and index funds. So if you have a 401K or even a few mutual funds somewhere, then most likely YOU OWN MSFT SHARES. If you don't have a 401k or any investments, then you must be extremely poor, which is in alignment with the fact that you're extremely ignorant.
Look at this chart showing how IBM, a blue-chip stock, is able to return value to its shareholders while MSFT cannot.
No, you're a vacuous idiot. I didn't understand whatever point you were trying to make because you didn't write anything. You just wrote some bullets about revenues and profits. What is the point? English isn't your first language, is it?
Now, of course the problem is with MSFT. The stock price is not going up because shareholders do not see any upside in growth. That is the fundamental problem. On the other hand, look at IBM, another megacorporation. They've reinvented themselves over the last five years, going from a hardware company to a services company. Shareholders see the upside in IBM, and their stock reflects that. See: MSFT vs IBM over last 5 years.
So if MSFT does not have growth upside, then their stock will stagnate. And since that is indeed the case, then MSFT has choices to increase shareholder value: (1) buy back shares to increase EPS, or (2) pay (more) dividends.
Idiot. The point of investing is to get something in return. If the share price is not going up, then the company has to pay out dividends. You don't just buy stock to buy stock. Looks like you've never invested in anything in your entire life.
I only use real Unix, like Solaris and Mac OS X, rather than cheap, reverse-engineered, and possibly illegal copies like Linux. At my age and high salary, I should be living like an adult and not steal digital content (like Unix software, movies, or music). I guess if you're young, stupid, and/or poor, then you can go ahead and do immoral things (like touching yourself at night as you stroke your neckbeard, which is what 90% of you do).
I completed a BS, MS, and PhD is computer science and engineering in the US. My grad school was top-20. I learned that surviving in undergrad is what's important, just as excelling in grad school and your later career is what's important there. Some of my friends from high school couldn't hack the surviving part, and I myself barely kept my head above water. Indeed, I often wondered what was the point of the six calculus classes, three physics classes, and three chemistry classes that I was taking in my first two years. In retrospect, it's true that they're to teach breadth in the fundamental sciences that, yes, do come into play later on in your career; however, they also serve as predators that eliminate the weak. If you don't have the stomach and focus to make your way through those classes when you're 18-21, what about when you're facing high-pressure deadlines throughout the rest of your career?
Next to gcc, vim is the greatest open-source project ever created. I've used vim every day of my life since discovering it back in 1996 as a replacement for basic 'vi' on a Sun Sparcstation. I'm currently using vim to write software on my MacBook Pro in a terminal window.
I started off learning vi on a DEC workstation back in the early 1990s while trying to keep my head above water as a freshman CS major. Since then, I've used vim inside of Visual Studio (with a plugin), inside of Eclipse (with a plugin), as the editor for the mutt mail client, and in a hundred other contexts.
Vim is excellent software.
It is completely inexcusable for Google to botch up a high-profile app release like this. Google has thousands of engineers, PMs, and testers, and they can't release an app for Gmail, one of their flagship user-facing products? There is absolutely no reason for this to happen other than complete and total incompetence. And you cannot blame this on iOS 5 because the beta 1 was released back in June.
I don't understand the relevance of these estimates of Samsung and HTC shipment figures, for three reasons:
1. The shipment estimates are made by analyst companies, not by Samsung or HTC themselves. Samsung, as of last summer, has stopped providing shipment numbers of its smartphones and tablets. Then these other companies (Strategy Analytics and Canalys) step in with their own estimates that are dodgy at best. How do they get their numbers? If Samsung is not providing their shipment numbers, why should we believe a third party?
2. One shipment to a vendor (e.g. Best Buy) does not map to one sale to an end consumer. A vendor can always return the item back to the seller.
3. What is counted as a smartphone? Phone manufacturers are cramming more smartphone features into low-end devices; remember that even the most basic Symbian phone was counted by Nokia as a smartphone, and look how those ostensibly great sales turned out for Nokia.
Note that Apple always lists its sales in its SEC statements. And these are sales figures to the end consumer, not shipments.
I'm a research scientist and software engineer with a PhD, and I can clearly see that these accomplishments are amazing.
Additionally, I have made my living using Unix and programming languages derived from C, and for that, Dennis Ritchie deserves substantial acclaim.
Here's the correct URL to the PARC story. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
Stop rehashing the same myth over and over. Jobs paid Xerox PARC $1M in pre-IPO Apple stock for the right to look over their technology.
"So Jobs proposed a deal: he would allow Xerox to buy a hundred thousand shares of his company for a million dollars—its highly anticipated I.P.O. was just a year away—if parc would “open its kimono.” A lot of haggling ensued. Jobs was the fox, after all, and parc was the henhouse. What would he be allowed to see? What wouldn’t he be allowed to see? Some at parc thought that the whole idea was lunacy, but, in the end, Xerox went ahead with it."
then you have nothing to be worried about. That's the usual post-9/11 line of thought, yet?
LOL @ the android fanboys who regale in the microscopic victories of having script-blocking software running on their Android phones. Time to pop the champagne!
Meanwhile, Apple and iOS are empowering users with devastatingly awesome features like Siri AI and an app store catalog that's now over 500,000. Oh yeah, Apple just sold 4.5 million iPhones 4s units during this weekend. When will the Android fanboys realize that it's not about hardware specs but overall integration between OS software, hardware, and 3rd-party apps? The iPhone empowers people (you, me, doctors, businessmen, engineers, scientists, etc.). Android distracts people with irrelevant details (is that 4.2" screen better than this 3.97" screen)?
So basically, you can continue wasting your days trying to hack your Android browser, or you can do something useful with your life.
Let's make something crystal clear: Jobs accomplished more in his time than any 20 of you put together. He defined and redefined personal computing, the GUI desktop, movie computer animation, digital audio, smartphones, tablets, retail sales, and more. Oh yeah, the WWW was invented on a computer that Jobs created.
What have any of you done? Redefined how to wear a ponytail and bitch on message boards all day? The best you can hope to accomplish is to donate your organs.
Acer and Asus have signed up for Thunderbolt and are expected to deliver PCs with Thunderbolt next year. Except more motherboards to have Thunderbolt as well, and once that occurs, Dell and other has-beens will do the same.
I want to know how and why did you allow Kirk, one of the greatest characters in all of fiction, to be killed off in the Star Trek: Generations movie.
Since the screen is E-Ink based, the browsing experience is pretty poor due to the low refresh rate of the screen. Scrolling is twitchy and often laggy.
So why didn't you just get an iPad? I use my iPad 2 for web browsing, reading, playing games, checking stocks, watching music videos, etc. etc. etc.
I considered a Kindle for reading research papers, but I also found it to be very poor with a very slow page turn and slow zooming in and out. It was like doing telnet on a 28.8 kbaud modem.
I don't know or care if these accusations about Microsoft are true. I think the more important question is why should the government care about how Microsoft is running their operating system or web browser. They are the dominant operating system and web browser, but there are other competitors in this space and other alternatives. Yet another example of government pushing its nose into something it doesn't understand in the name of the public good.
All MacBook models, the iMac, and the iPad support 802.11n at 5Ghz.
The best 802.11n home routers right now are the Apple Airport Extreme and the Cisco E4200. The key feature to look for is dual-band: you want to keep 802.11a/b traffic on 2.4Ghz and 802.11n on 5.0Ghz. That will allow you to achieve 802.11n's upper bound of 450 Mbps without baggage from 802.11a/b. If you want the most effortless setup, get the Airport Extreme; the accessory Airport Express devices will also allow you to extend the wireless range of your network.
You heard it here first. www.metroislipstickonapig.com
Apple has done an excellent job here. Most likely all you anti-Apple zealots have never had intellectual property to protect. You probably don't have much property, period, aside from the rubber bands that tie up your ponytails. But those of us who work for a living and make money off our brains understand the importance of protecting intellectual property. I have 1 issued USPTO patent and a dozen others filed (some rejected, some pending). Each patent represents at least 9 months' research and development work. I would be seriously pissed if a competitor stole my ideas and tried to get rich by stealing them. You would be, too, if you actually thought up something new. Enjoy your neckbeards and your lifetime job as keyboard-jockey trolls.
This isn't a physical wrestling match. It's a company versus a state government. Yes, Amazon folded. End of story.