No, not humor - the stock has been a laggard basically under the mid $30ish for over a decade while Apple went from $16 to $700 and Goog went from 0 to almost a $1,000. Just something not good in those numbers for MSFT.

>>Finally....:)
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>>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-retire-within-131209911.html
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>Was this purposeful humor on behalf of Reuters?
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>"Microsoft Corp said on Friday that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months, once it has selected a successor, sending its shares up almost 9 percent."
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>I certainly found it humorous. :-)