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Why Microsoft Is Headed to $4
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| A while back, when Microsoft shares were trading in the mid-$20s, we used
| charts to predict they would eventually fall to $4 or lower. How could such
| a thing happen to a company with a product that dominates the software world,
| and with cash reserves totaling more than $20 billion? For starters, consider
| that Microsoft used to have twice that sum on hand but squandered a big chunk
| of it on investments that would make the guys at Bear Stearns look like
| visionaries. Also, they have not exactly enticed new customers in droves with
| the clunky Vista operating system. While the Redmond behemoth may have been
| able to ram this product down the throats of captive business and
| institutional customers, much as they have been doing for years with each
| new, gratuitously enhanced version of Windows, individual buyers have
| deserted the platform en masse. Just look around you the next time you’re at
| Starbucks: probably half of the computers one sees these days outside of the
| office and commercial airliners are Macs. The percentage is even higher at
| college libraries. These are tomorrow’s business users, and most of them
| wouldn’t use a PC if it were given to them free.
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http://news.goldseek.com/RickAckerman/1229089401.php
Microsoft: Waiting For The Warning
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| Morgan Stanley’s Adam Holt this morning notes that the company has not
| negatively pre-announced earnings since December 2000. But given that
| business conditions have deteriorated since the company last provided
| guidance in October, he thinks the company could come up short of its targets
| for the quarter, whether or not they give the Street advance warning.
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/12/11/microsoft-waiting-for-the-warning/
What Happens if Microsoft Warns?
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| Microsoft issued a dire profit warning at the start of the last recession, in
| December 2000. Will the 2008 recession lead to another warning?
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/what_happens_if_microsoft_warns.html
Recent:
Microsoft, Cisco to lose $4.3 Billion as investment banks cut cost
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| The cut in the IT budgets of the revered investment banks like Lehman
| Brothers and Merrill Lynch due to their failure may lead industry giants like
| U.S. based Microsoft and California based Cisco to lose $4.3 billion in
| orders next year. While Cisco earns about three percent to four percent of
| annual revenue from the U.S. financial industry, Microsoft accounted for 22
| percent last year.
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http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/47182
Microsoft will be hurt by financial crisis, RBC analyst says
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| The devastating U.S. financial crisis will hurt software giant Microsoft
| Corp.'s bottom line this holiday season as shoppers tighten their purse
| strings, RBC Capital Markets says.
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http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/tradingdesk/archive/2008/09/29/microsoft-will-be-hurt-by-financial-crisis-rbc-analyst-says.aspx
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