Microsoft's chief executive told the company's shareholders at its annual meeting this morning that there is no benefit in breaking the company up.
"There's nothing that I see in creating fundamental value in splitting the company up," Steve Ballmer said in response to a question about unlocking value by cleaving the company.
Microsoft benefits, Ballmer said, from synergies it's able to drive across the company. The Xbox game console, for example, uses technology from the company's Bing search engine, as well as voice recognition technology that comes from the company's research unit. There's no good way to separate units from one another.
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