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I want to see Microsoft do something that can help them on a going concern, ... I'd rather see the company make some sort of deal but if there aren't any acquisitions available, I'd settle for a buyback.

Will the company take another steep dividend increase? Will the company embark on a more sizeable share buyback program? Will the company make any corporate acquisitions? Pfizer could conceivably do all of the above.

Timothy Anderson

Given the sensitive regulatory position that Microsoft will still be facing, the company will not make a major series of acquisitions, which reduces the need for cash.

The whole thing with the government has not really weighed on this company at all, ... The company has continued to grow itself and sort of change its stripes from a ugly competitor to a more sort of new, friendlier Microsoft.

An individual can use a lawsuit to cause a company a great deal of adverse publicity. Even if the company believes it's doing the right thing, it may settle or change their practices to make the lawsuit go away.

People will always be a little bit concerned that higher interest rates will go too far and threaten company earnings, which will then mean mergers and acquisitions don't make a great deal of sense.

We're not recommending purchase of it, but I do think that the worst is probably behind. I do think that there is probably a bounce due in the stock. It's Microsoft's turn at the plate, if you will. I think the actions really will start to play in their favor. I think a stock buyback program begins within the next six-to-eight weeks. I think that's one line of defense that the company has for the stock.

The deal announced today shows the utter vacuity of that proposition. The time has come for this case to come to an end. These people [Microsoft's competitors] aren't running scared, they're running hard against Microsoft.

If I were a communications company and wanted to make sure I never got bothered [with a leap second], I'd create my own sort of internal time scale. Pex Tufvesson is a genius, no doubt about it. Then there's a concern that if everyone started doing this, there'd be a [complete] lack of standardization.

Dennis McCarthy

Effective cash management has again added to the earnings delivery and our share buyback program will continue while we seek value-creating acquisitions,

I get the sense that [Microsoft] would like to settle the case on the right terms. The contract language and exclusionary deals may have been more important when they were trying to catch up to Netscape in the browser market. Now that they're even, it's not that big a deal.

We've never said we wouldn't consider acquisitions; we've said we rely more on organic growth. We're obviously a company that doesn't have a history of doing many acquisitions; if we have this conversation in 10 years, that'll probably still be characteristic of us.

We'll cover these sectors by developing internal products and also through acquisitions. We've done 52 acquisitions as a company, and it's a traditional way of moving our business ahead.

I think there's been confusion in the first year around acquisitions [and the company's accounting] which doesn't exist anymore. It was hard for investors to get their hands around what the acquisitions meant.

With revenue growth slowing, Ballmer has tried to squeeze more down to the bottom line to make the company more appealing to investors, ... Even the cuts that seem trivial have dampened morale. Just whisper the word 'towels' to any Microsoft employee, and eyes roll. Last year, Microsoft stopped providing a towel service for workers who used company locker rooms after bike rides or workouts. Employees who helped the company build its huge cash stockpile were furious. And don't even mention stock options. Employees long counted on them to bolster their salaries. Microsoft minted thousands of employee millionaires as the stock climbed 61,000% from its 1986 public offering to its peak in 2001. Now shares are trading exactly were they were seven years ago. Microsoft has doubled its payroll in that time, adding more than 30,000 new employees, not including attrition. That means more than half of Microsoft's employees have received virtually no benefit from their stock holdings.

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