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[News] Ballmer Discusses Microsoft's Poor Christmas

Ballmer discusses life after Vista

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| The holiday season hasn't gone exactly as Microsoft had hoped.
| 
| The much-anticipated Zune, Microsoft's portable music player
| entry, has received mixed reviews, and demand has been tepid.
| Sure, Vista made its debut, finally, last week--but only for
| business customers. The Windows XP successor, more than five
| years in the making, didn't make it into consumers' hands for
| the all-important holiday sales season. Ditto for Office 2007,
| the flagship of the company's second most-profitable product line.
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http://news.com.com/2008-1012_3-6141081.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news


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Microsoft's past stock options practice poses questions

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| Microsoft in 1999 announced that it would end a policy of awarding
| options at monthly lows and said it would take a $217 million charge,
| though many details of that discontinued practice haven't been widely
| known, The Wall Street Journal said Friday.
|
| Those details raise questions about how Microsoft began the practice,
| what prompted the company to end it and whether the way the options
| were dated--at 30-day lows the month after they were
| granted--influenced other companies, it said.
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                http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6084617.html 


Microsoft counts on Vista to recharge stagnant stock

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| There was a time in the 1990s when shares of Microsoft stock seemed to
| double every couple of years. 1996: college for the kids. 1998: a place
| on Whidbey. 1999: early retirement.
|
| Times have changed.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003437957_vista19.html


Commentary: Microsoft needs more than just buybacks to lift its shares

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| Microsoft shares, which have been dormant for the last few years,
| have been looking up over the last couple months. The Dow industrials
| component has gained about 20% since hitting a 4-year low of $21.46 o
| June 13.
|
| To help move things along, Microsoft not only launched a $40 billion
| stock repurchase program that lasts through 2011, the company also said
| its previously announced 4-year, $30 billion stock buyback program was
| completed in just 2 years.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B685EFB89%2D5791%2D4E8B%2DAD6A%2D9688F5B6012A%7D&source=blq%2Fyhoo&dist=yhoo&siteid=yhoo


A Dozen Stocks For '07

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| Millen also thinks $36 billion in planned share buybacks
| will help the stock.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/05/stocks-markets-investing-pf-ii-cz_ag_1205stockpicks.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yjzfbo

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