MSFT to pay 10 bil div - trading up$1 in Europe

I think that they didn't like that Billy tried a few years ago to break the monopole of satellits they are punishing him perhaps :D although it was under his own name not under Microsoft Banner. I think he had guessed that the monopole of Telecom will swallow also the software area. It is so funny that people believe to the fairy tale about the monopoly battle against Microsoft whereas it hides a bigger monopoly project than ever where we will be delivered software at home though the same telecom-hardware consortium. It will be "free" but since they will have the monopole of the information transport + the software the free is paid elsewhere. Above all employment will deeply suffer except at the beginning of the wave where they will need to create the new logistic.

As for Microsoft it is too important player to disappear and they have always been visionary against all others. I remember for example that when Win95 was out the medias was saying that it was their biggest error that will sink Microsoft, I think that it was rather the biggest's error from these journalists :D.

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Deflation is on software industry because of the hardware sector leaded by IBM and Sun which want to reduce it to worthless commodity. It is no good for job market either. In the future software engineers will be jobless like the electronician engineers sometimes ago. Software will be delivered online through these two giants mainly at term. That's at least the declared purpose of SUN's CEO a few years ago which envisioned that SEMA group firm and software companies will be erased. I don't think they could erase that sector completely but for sure due to IBM's power the software industry will suffer deeply. A great sign: for the first time in his career Steve Jobs is selling his shares of Microsoft. Bill Gates has begun to do so long before him. So it is not good for Microsoft but it is not good for many others - I speak for long term (10 years perhaps), short term people won't just see nothing as usual.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY is the current infant big thing!:cool: Time is the only book for this story.....start turning the pages and read.
 
Quote from triple_j:

isn't this negative news? If they pay out a dividend that means they have no place to put the cash- no place to invest it in new technology or new businesses, so they simply distribute it to shareholders. In my opinion the stock should be down and not up.

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So,

If they give the $10 in dividend, they can't at the same time be looking for purchases with the rest of the $36B?

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Maybe Bill caught on to the neo-trickle-down rage going on in DC.

Bush: "Hey Bill...we're going to go ahead with the tax cut and start the trickle-down. You in?"

Bill: "Sure thing, just give me a few months here."
 
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So,

If they give the $10 in dividend, they can't at the same time be looking for purchases with the rest of the $36B?

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maybe they'll do a convertible to raise another 10 bil for aquisitions.


lol
 
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