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Share price is diving? As compared to what?

Well for starters let's compare MSFT to AAPL. Here's a chart comparing them over the last 12 months:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MSFT+Interactive#symbol=m...

If that link works correctly, any unbiased party will clearly acknowledge that in the past year Microsoft is up 15.5% (including today's slide) while Apple is down 30.0%.

So - the question becomes - precisely whose share price is diving? The clear answer is Apple, while Microsoft has done little but gone up over the last 12 months.



That's because AAPL had something to lose. At their peak they were worth three DELLs more than MSFT.


Interesting.

At its peak, how much bigger was MSFT than Apple?

Hint: Lots.


We're only concerned with recent history here, though, aren't we?

Everything I needed to know about Steve Ballmer -- and Microsoft's future -- I learned when he laughed at the iPhone on national TV.




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