{"id":624,"date":"2008-09-23T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T08:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=624"},"modified":"2008-09-23T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T08:03:13","slug":"microsoft-on-the-ropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft on the ropes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7630508.stm\"> Microsoft unveils $40bn buy-back<\/a> it becomes evident how poorly Microsoft is doing in the market place as the process of a Buy Back which I quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/b\/buyback.asp\"><br \/>\nCompanies will buyback shares either to increase the value of shares still available (reducing supply), or to eliminate any threats by shareholders who may be looking for a controlling stake.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe that this attempt to get the stock price up points not to one of the above reasons, but to both the reasons. Microsoft stock is low, and falling, and many mainline fortune 500 companies like Insurance companys, mutual funds and retirement systems have large investments in Microsoft. There may be an uprising, or worse a sellout by these companies if the stock price does not rise. Microsoft is on the ropes, mostly Steve Ballmer is on the ropes. If he can&#8217;t get the stock to rise, he will be gone before the year is out.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article Microsoft unveils $40bn buy-back it becomes evident how poorly Microsoft is doing in the market place as the process of a Buy Back which I quote: Companies will buyback shares either to increase the value of shares still<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=624\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft on the ropes<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}