Comments on: Microsoft Could Soon Enter Debt http://techrights.org/2008/08/06/buyback-debt-option/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: G. Michaels http://techrights.org/2008/08/06/buyback-debt-option/comment-page-1/#comment-35332 G. Michaels Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:35:07 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/06/buyback-debt-option/#comment-35332 You should get busy: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1022765&cid=25690127 <font color="#ff0000"><b>Note</b>: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/25/jose-on-mono/#comment-39320" rel="nofollow">documented here</a>. You should get busy:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1022765&cid=25690127

Note: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as documented here.

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2008/08/06/buyback-debt-option/comment-page-1/#comment-35228 twitter Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:52:56 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/06/buyback-debt-option/#comment-35228 Give it up, <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/06/bribing-addicting-dumping/#comments" rel="nofollow">stalker</a>. Give it up, stalker.

]]> By: G. Michaels http://techrights.org/2008/08/06/buyback-debt-option/comment-page-1/#comment-35227 G. Michaels Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:48:28 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/06/buyback-debt-option/#comment-35227 I would be weary of comments by this 'twitter' person. See: http://slashdot.org/~SockDisclosure/journal/214377 <font color="#ff0000"><b>Note</b>: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/25/jose-on-mono/#comment-39320" rel="nofollow">documented here</a>. I would be weary of comments by this ‘twitter’ person. See:

http://slashdot.org/~SockDisclosure/journal/214377

Note: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as documented here.

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2008/08/06/buyback-debt-option/comment-page-1/#comment-35225 twitter Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:40:26 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/06/buyback-debt-option/#comment-35225 Here's the <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2008/09/22/microsoft-to-buy-back-40-billion-of-stock-it-didnt-spend-on-yahoo/" rel="nofollow">WSJ Reporting on the $40 Billion buyback</a>. <blockquote> Microsoft today said it would spend $40 billion on a larger-than-expected stock buyback program–one of the largest such efforts in history and more than double what one analyst predicted several months ago. ... nearly as much as the software giant proposed to spend this year in acquiring Web advertising and search company Yahoo. ... notable in the announcement was Microsoft’s plan to tap the debt markets for the first time. </blockquote> Here’s the WSJ Reporting on the $40 Billion buyback.

Microsoft today said it would spend $40 billion on a larger-than-expected stock buyback program–one of the largest such efforts in history and more than double what one analyst predicted several months ago. … nearly as much as the software giant proposed to spend this year in acquiring Web advertising and search company Yahoo. … notable in the announcement was Microsoft’s plan to tap the debt markets for the first time.

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