>I wouuld invest money in MS after a .NET failure if I believe it was a good investment. There is also a good chance that the market would panick and drive the stock price to a value well below its "true" value. The stock price will eventually climb to its true value and the opporunists who bought low will make a decent profit. It wouldn't be anything I haven't seen before.

I don't think companies that invest millions of dollars in enterprise computing equipment care about how the company is performing in the stock market (aka the expensive baseball card market).

Thats what it takes to rebuild a company. Not "good chances" in a 100% unpredictable stock exchange.