Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 23 June 2007 13:34 : \____
Maverick <Sun@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
Dr. LittleDong moaned:
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Another nym-shift by the ee-ai-ee-ai troll.
<*PLONK*>
Isn't it funny, just as Microsoft is trying to persuade linux companies
to pay a Microsoft Tax for using linux, one of their trolls is back,
decrying the same product which Microsoft is so keen on. Something
seems to have gone wrong in their communications.
Someone has just informed me (a person one can trust, from Massachusetts) that
Microsoft suffers from declining revenue. The context was the rising Linux use
in servers (all very quietly so, which means that revenue-based studies miss
it completely). No wonder a $40 billion buyback program kicked in to assist
MSFT.
Their numbers have been poor for a very long time now. They've been
hiding it because they have very deep pockets, but at some point, the
remaining shareholders might get a little upset at seeing the cash pile
being thrown away. It would be better to pay it out as a dividend to
the shareholders, thus keeping them happy, however, if they did that, it
would expose how bad things are, I suspect.
