Bleumangue

What's Cramer Got Against Microsoft?

You misread Cramer and therefore watch him for things that probably come up via serendipity. The market, for Cramer, is like a casino and the various stocks are like different themed slot machines. He has a general idea of when some of them might be due to payoff. It's like watching the geezerettes in AC play the slots, you get a feel for when to take over a machine. It's all feeling based a bit on hunches fueled by general info about how much the slot has been played. It's gambling. ANYBODY who approaches the stock market with some sort of belief that it makes any other sense, is in my opinion, sadly misinformed and in for an amusement park like ride towads grief. Microsoft is NOT a slot machine - it's more of a pool game where no real money will be made, bur you can go home and tell everybody what a terrific shot you made here and there.

Netflix & Microsoft Move On; Blockbuster Still Stuck in the '80's

Your suggestions may make sense in a mathematical way but they seriously don't understand the "shopping experience". Somewhere in your schooling you must have heard about the importance of owernership of the object for sale. Color, smell, touch the pretty DVD box. I've rented on-line and from video stores. The 2 experiences are not comparable. It's not only about the DVD. It's about having a shopping experience with the other humans in the store. Watch the shopping experience on HSN or QVC. They vicariously suck in all your senses. They do it so you can feel that you did. Netflix business model is based on the belief that we consumers exist to cocoon; having all our needs supplied by forces outside a habitat from which we will never, or minimaly, venture out. That's what Blockbuster is not selling; and I'm not buying.