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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Desperate for Cash, Uses Blackouts

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____/ Brad on Friday 19 September 2008 16:18 : \____

> 
> "Jerry McBride" <jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:91tcq5xpr6.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft loses 90 Billion Dollars
>>>
>>> http://slated.org/microsoft_loses_90_billion_dollars
>>>
>>
>>
>> How can you LOSE 90 Billion Dollars and stay in business or keep your
>> investors buying your stock???  Amazing!
> 
> How can anyone be retarded enough to believe that Microsoft "lost" 90
> billion dollars.
> 
> Hint for you retard - Microsoft has made billions in profit every single
> year for the last decade.

False.

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, declared a profit
| of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the
| change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss
| of $18 billion, according to Smithers.
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http://etheridge.ca/articles/economist-options.html

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