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Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK)
NOK 6.150-1.7%Dec 4 3:59 PM EST

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To: sylvester80 who wrote (30320)7/16/2012 2:40:52 AM
From: sense3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 34857
 
How can Elop be so stupid ?

LOL!!!

Took MS management SIXTEEN YEARS to extinguish this flaming disaster...

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They just don't do "timely" decision making... The culture always assumes that there's a bottomless pit of shareholders money backing any stupid decision made, and that no one will care if you just burn it...

I particularly enjoyed the quote: " Microsoft has leaned on its lucrative franchise selling personal computer software to pay for massive Internet investments that have rarely paid off, much to the frustration of its shareholders "

I'm not seeing that they're doing any better investing in things other than the Internet...

Given the proofs apparent in every other venture they've taken on, it's a real mystery that they've not encountered any more meaningful competition in the OS business...

MSFT is a stupid "cash cow"... and it behaves exactly like the prototypical textbook "mature business"... assuming there will never be a change in the markets that might makes their failures count.
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