What should M$ do with all that cash?

re: What should M$ do with all that cash?

Eric — Thu, 20 May 2004 22:13:00 GMT

They should invest it into jump-starting the space tourism industry. No, really. Paul Allen already funds Scaled composite's first private spaceship. I really hope that this is what they have in mind.

Danseuse

TrackBack — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:41:00 GMT

re: What should M$ do with all that cash?

senkwe — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:51:00 GMT

Investing aggresively in broadband would also have the side effect that the size issue of the .Net framework for consumer desktop apps goes away :-)

re: What should M$ do with all that cash?

Dennis — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:42:00 GMT

Apple gives away their dev tools for free...of course they don't already have dominant market position, but you could argue the same for .Net and Longhorn.

re: What should M$ do with all that cash?

stefan demetz — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:17:00 GMT

wrote it up at http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/stefandemetz/archive/2004/02/05/6670.aspx

re: What should M$ do with all that cash?

Robert Scoble — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:45:00 GMT

The problem is that money belongs to our investors, not to us. So, we either need to give it back to them (through dividends, etc) or we need to show how spending it will actually increase their returns over investing it smartly.

Also, we'd love to acquire things, but you need to think about the chances such an acquisition would be approved by the DOJ, et al.