Microsoft's results to be hurt by Vista delay
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| Microsoft Corp. is expected to report a lower quarterly profit
| next Thursday, hurt by the deferral of $1.5 billion in revenue
| to help pay for a marketing program to boost demand for delayed
| versions of its key software products.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsofts-results-hurt-vista-delay/story.aspx?guid=%7BFD5E3C59%2DF41E%2D4B53%2DBA51%2D612515EF7140%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/2mydtd
The company is buying back its own stock behind the scenes.
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
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.
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| 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
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.
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| 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
With All the Focus on Apple's Options Issues, When Will We Hear About
Microsoft's?
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| But we haven't heard anything about Microsoft's similar practice,
| as documented in the Wall Street Journal this summer. Further, some
| have said that the practice at Apple was actually initially pioneered
| by Deloitte and Touche, Microsoft's auditor.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061228/23176_id.html?.v=1
Windows Vista "over-hyped": Torvalds
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| With the imminent release of Windows Vista to consumers this month,
| Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, has claimed Microsoft's latest
| desktop effort is over-hyped and not a revolutionary advancement.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;261269498;fp;2;fpid;1
Full Disclosure: Windows--New! Improved! Yada Yada Yada!
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| Every Microsoft upgrade sets a new standard--in hype.
|
| [...]
|
| I'm not masochistic enough to test Microsoft's betas and release
| candidates. The final product is usually rough enough; and as I write,
| that's not yet available. But I've seen the demos and read the propaganda
| and first looks. Vista promises a lot of potentially useful new stuff. But
| for now I can think of only one reason to worry about the thing: It will
| come with your next PC.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127927-c,vistalonghorn/article.html
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