M$ Shareholders love M$, because most of M$ Shareholders work at M$. M$ continue to buy up things left, right and centre, it is the way they work. Where you get your idea that it is in the past is beyond me. What they spent last financial year within the game division is miniscule in comparison to what they spent acquiring software technologies and companies...

... I live in and around M$ UK and am regularly there on courses and in seminars. You will not believe how greedy they are and the absolute mind-numbing amount of money they regularly spunk up the wall.

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