Microsoft's surprise announcement Tuesday that it would share about $75 billion with stockholders over four years has investors and analysts wondering if the world's largest software company is still a growth company.
If it is, they want to know what's going to drive that future growth, at a time when the PC market where its Windows and Office products dominate has been slowing, and a major new release of Windows, called Longhorn, is widely seen as delayed until 2007.
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