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To: Spekulatius who wrote (33982)	3/31/2009 12:15:21 AM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78650

MSFT - I own it and hold it, but you are mostly right. MSFT has a lot of brand and monopoly and great markets still, but it is not going to be a great growth story. They will chug along with only big risk being some stupid acquisition. If they don't screw up there, MSFT will be a safe, boring stock. Actually, in the best case they will pull IBM-like performance, which will be outperformance. Short term, MSFT can have volatility, but IMHO it is cheap enough to be rather stable. I would be very surprised if it dropped to $10 or thereabouts. For me MSFT is now like PEP, JNJ, BRK, MMM, maybe NKE. Stable supercaps that may outperform lousy supercaps. Would I expect super results from them? Not really. But I don't expect 80% drop from here either. Should I hold them? Not sure. But perhaps they are fine as a relatively small part of portfolio.