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...going to happen anymore. It is too large and that makes it a captive of the economy. Microsoft is not going to outperform the trends in global technology spending by a great deal, and it will rarely do much worse. What will happen is that Microsoft will remain the dominant force in business, server, and PC software for years. The company's products are too ubiquitous and too well-designed to be easily replaced. Microsoft will have competition, but that competition will not transform the software industry overnight because Microsoft's products are the glue that holds together a very...
...what happens if Microsoft cannot mount a successful challenge to Google's main business? Probably nothing. From a financial standpoint, the software business is better than the search business. The revenue is better, and so are the margins. Microsoft will remain successful, more successful than Google, because it owns the more valuable real estate. Being a growth company is overrated...
...agreed to honor a commitment to put $9 billion into the U.S. investment firm. Whether their presumption was right or not, it appears that Paulson and Bernanke believed that a failure at Merrill could have been an event worse than the banking catastrophes of the 1930s. This will remain an unanswered question. Would the common equity value of America's largest financial firms have gone to zero in a matter of days if Merrill had gone bankrupt? Would bondholders have suffered huge losses? Would the trouble have spread to even the healthiest financial firms...
...America’s lead. Even China, whose official stance for years has been that the carbon in the atmosphere wreaking havoc today was emitted by the major powers during the Industrial Revolution, thus absolving itself of any responsibility to curb emissions, appears ready to relent somewhat. Although they remain unwilling to cut e=missions at the expense of economic growth, a growing number of top-level Chinese bureaucrats are coming to the realization that, at the very least, they could adopt targets that would peg emissions to economic growth...
...Yale’s financial aid program is among the most generous in the U.S.,” said Caesar T. Storlazzi, the university’s Director of Financial Aid. “Yale will remain extremely competitive and continue to attract prospective students...