danf

Microsoft: Free Cash Flow Analysis

seems to me that MSFT is a nice investment for Bill Gates and his friends. The company is basically run to benefit them. Dividends and large stock buy back programs are there to allow founders to liquidate their investments.

Nothing wrong with that, just don't see MSFT as somewhere to make strong gains when there is a big hole in the bottom of the tub

Microsoft Gets Its Edge Back

MSFT is like the government. An unfortunate burden our society has to endure that nonetheless drains us of our vitality. I make my living with a computer - not as an employee - so my computer purchase is a choice for me. Given the choice to buy a PC for $1000 or a Mac for $2000. I would - and do - buy a mac. One machines gives me Unix, Windows and Mac software. No concerns about virus, excellent access to open source.

MSFT stock is dead money. The stock repurchase is all about transferring cash to Bill Gates. Most MSFT employees are retired in place. The manipulators have remained, the doers have left for other places where they can do