Memory Tweak

[James McDonald]

Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 08:30:59 pm Leon Goldstein wrote:
>   
>> The big news of M$'s buyout of Yahoo is getting a lot of attention in
>> the media, but nobody has mentioned the ads M$ ran on TV 1-2 years ago
>> proclaiming its development of a search engine technology that would
>> leave everything else in its dust.
>>
>> Does the Yahoo buyout effort signify a major expensive failure which M$
>> may be trying to cover up?
>>     
> MSFT stated that they would have to take a loan to fully implement the buyout. Where did the money 
> go? 
I saw a table of how in 2004 they had 60 billion cash reserves but there 
was some huge purchases and other expenses that were eating into it and 
by this year it was down to the figure you quoted.

I think some of the things that ate into it was: Vista not being 
accepted as well as it should, overheating Xbox's causing massive 
recalls and refunds, the many court cases and fines they have etc. I 
can't find the weblink thaty had the info but from memory these were 
contributing to the cash reserve drain.

I am loving the fact that because of Open Source software we can now get 
Office 200x Pro for 400 instead of 700+ AUD (not that I am buying it).