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Microsoft: Looking Sweet for Option Combinations

Yea, but what if US recession really kicks in or they choke on the Yahoo deal. MSFT could go to $20. It's much safer to leave the put side out of the equation. Even safer would be to Invest in a sector that is really performing well. China diamonds sales grew 100% last year. Check out JADE.

Microsoft Is Moving Toward Checkmate With Yahoo

MS should buy the search and Panama (publisher network), integrate Panama with their adCenter marketplace, then spin off their on-line unit into a new company, live.com. Then sell a minority interest to newscorp and yahoo. This way they can sell ads to Yahoo, MSN, facebook, myspace, hotmail, yahoo mail, MS SaaS offerings, and Yahoo's publisher network, in one centralized location.