>>As you may or may not know Microsoft has something like 50 billion dollars cash in the bank.
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>>I'd take that as 'real world' proof that they know what they are doing. <g>
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>They may know what they are doing to accumulate such a hord of money, but do you know what they are doing to acquire it?

Maybe 'software' is just their day job -- the real bucks are coming from Amway?