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Microsoft Holders Say Ballmer's Web Spending Masks Idea Drought | |
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| Time: 01:37 EST/06:37 GMT | News Source: Bloomberg | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer says he plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to fix the company's unprofitable Internet business. His investors say they want proof he knows what to do with the money.
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| #1 By 8556 (12.206.195.4) at 7/23/2008 9:44:08 AM |
| Growth through sensible acqusition is good business. |
| #2 By 9589 (76.6.29.196) at 7/23/2008 10:55:13 AM |
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I am not an investor of the stock and haven't been for over a decade, but it was Ballmer that led the way into gaming. While that division is number three presently, it is definitely profitable. And, that is not something that anyone thought possible when Microsoft got into the business.
Regarding search and Internet advertising, Microsoft just has to get out of the way and wait until Yahoo! self destructs. Something that they seem destined to do as the stock slowly drifts down into the teens - again. |
| #3 By 16302 (64.201.211.159) at 7/23/2008 11:30:58 AM |
| I don't see a drought of ideas from Microsoft - they are launching new products all the time in very new markets. Just because they don't know how to cash in on the online ad presence, doesn't mean that they are not being led properly - they are primarily a software company - wrestling into the online ad market is a completely different business. Perhaps they should not try - let the DOJ do to Google what they did to MS... |
| #4 By 92283 (142.32.208.234) at 7/23/2008 1:48:49 PM |
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Google spends 100's of million to buy or create online apps designed to damage and/or compete with Microsofts flagships products.
Microsoft should continue to do the same to Google by competing in search. |
| #5 By 143 (65.221.158.226) at 7/23/2008 2:54:57 PM |
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"Microsoft, the biggest software maker, has lost about $90 billion in market value this year"
holy smokes batman! |
| #6 By 9589 (76.6.29.196) at 7/23/2008 3:20:12 PM |
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"Microsoft, the biggest software maker, has lost about $90 billion in market value this year"
Incredibly, Yahoo! had a market cap of 28 billion at the start of the year and has that now. Looking at it another way, that is about what Microsoft has laying around in cash! Regarding Icahn efforts to sway Yahoo!, I say good luck! Regarding Google, several quarters ago they lost their luster with Wall Street. Wall Street has given them about a 60 billion dollar hair cut since the begining of the year and about an 80 billion dollar hair cut from their all time high of $747. So much for Google conquering the planet . . . |
| #7 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 7/23/2008 5:43:29 PM |
| donpacman, $90B is a ton... but no more than the rest of the blue chips. GE has lost ~$120B in the same amount of time. |
| #8 By 82766 (202.154.80.82) at 7/23/2008 8:09:31 PM |
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#3 - Just because they don't know how to cash in on the online ad presence
Actually they do know how to make cash out of the online advertising market, they just can't get enough [search market share] to make lots of money from it, as Google has three quarters of it. #6 - that is about what Microsoft has laying around in cash Last I heard/read, Microsoft had some US$70 billion "lying around" in cash... they were not even going to pay "cash" for Yahoo either, it was a collection of investment banks, stock sharing/offers plus some cash. So they still wouldn't have made too much of a dent in their savings :) Of course, what a lot of people forget... its businesses like Microsoft, Google, IBM, GE etc... that have these cash reserves that have helped thousands of people get home mortgages. Their investments, cash savings, term deposits, etc have really helped the world banks. This post was edited by MyBlueRex on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 20:11. |
| #9 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 7/23/2008 8:38:50 PM |
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#8, Great points.
It is very similar to the ways Apple has benefited from the very low cost hardware components made possible by the ecosystem evolved by Microsoft and its partners - not to mention how they have equally benefited from the work done by Microsoft's rivals in the OSS/FOSS camps. Google, Apple, and the lot of them remind me of "The Borrowers" - less the cuteness and benign nature of their existence. |
| #10 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 7/23/2008 10:54:45 PM |
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Henry Ford invented the assembly line to build cars but were the Japanese in the 60/70s that revolutionized the quality control used in the line. If you prefer nor MS neither Apple invented the GUI, as I am sure you know very well Xerox did, they improved over and over the concept although, at least IMO, nowadays it is showing its age. So should we consider MS, Apple, IBM etc. borrowers? The concept of "Personal Computer" originated at IBM and was then cloned by others hardware companies, MS came after and provided a version of DOS first, and Windows after as OS for the hardware. Note that because I do not agree with your opinion I do not consider MS a "borrower"; on the contrary they were able to see an untapped potential, exploit and capitalize on it. This post was edited by Fritzly on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 06:09. |
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