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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andy Yamaguchi who wrote (20995)	4/20/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: taxman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"Without this, they actually missed the Q by a large margin." investment income was also included in the estimates. regards

To: Andy Yamaguchi who wrote (20995)	4/20/1999 6:50:00 PM
From: Andy Yamaguchi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Without the 720Millions investment income, 0.23 this Q.

To: Andy Yamaguchi who wrote (20995)	4/20/1999 7:26:00 PM
From: mauser96	Respond to of 74651

Probably investment profits should be considered an integral part of MSFT's business. Microsoft (and Intel) are really in unique positions to spot tech trends early, and they have excess cash flows from their businesses to fund theses transactions. I'm sure they will do better with the money than if they returned it to shareholders by dividends so we could invest the money ourselves. I am disappointed with revenue growth, but this quarter is not a typical one, and the spread of low cost computers is bound to help MSFT and INTC. I just bought a new one that I really didn't need, mainly because it was so cheap.