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Technology Stocks : Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)

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Nov 5 3:59 PM EST

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To: Charles Tutt who started this subject	5/18/2004 1:09:31 AM
From: jonkai	of 197

to answer those that are thinking this below... ---------What will happen to the 50 Billion $ that MSFT is hoarding? Wouldn't it be a good idea to distribute some of it to the shareholders? Their dividend now is downright pitiful!---------- actually the $5 you would get if they distributed it all is pitiful.... after 20 years of operations.... even Apple has more money per share and Apple got it all in the last 6 years........ that is why MSFT stock is performing so badly...... $57 billion really is pitiful...when you consider the dilution and the poor management of this money..and the time it took to get it........ MSFT hasn't produced a new product that has made an overall profit, since their original monopolies were formed..... and thats with 10 times the research budget of Apple..... yet Apple has produced 10 times the products that actually make a profit.... WHY? because the MSFT employees have become fat lazy desk sitters..... waiting for their pay checks..... and you pay them for that..... great.... where do we sign up..... this is what MSFT should do..... make a tender offer for $30 a share, and not only buy back $50 billion worth of stock, but buy back $75 billion worth maybe more, go into debt with these absurdly low interest rates.... and then pay a future 4 percent dividend on the shares that are remaining.... and pay off the debt within 5 years to 10 years on future ho-hum profits that they are making (just from the dividends they didn't have to pay on retired stock)............... you want to see a stock price and company suddenly become in demand....... watch what happens if they were smart enough to do that...... i would buy the stock if they were that smart, course everybody and their mother would buy the stock...... actually they are so stupid, that they already blew it.... they let the low interest rates get away without using any debt.....pure stupidity........ never let free money get away from you...... ever..... now they will never see those low rates again..... now that is pathetic management.... jon.

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