RedHerring.com | Empire-building the Microsoft
by Volker Weber
RedHerring.com | Empire-building the Microsoft way: "Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has a nasty problem: figuring out what to do with $31.6 billion in cash. We can picture a sleep-deprived Bill Gates and a red-eyed Steve Ballmer toiling away night after night, trying to get the company out of this predicament. It must be tough. So we decided to help them out by making a few suggestions on how Microsoft should spend its cash hoard."