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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by serge2k on Friday June 10, 2016 @12:25PM (#11877534)
> The new offer, however, was for cash rather than MSFT stock, overcoming one hesitation of our investors.

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by nitroscott on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:49PM (#11878903)
The adjusted price of a share of MSFT on 6/25/87 was $0.37. Had they received $14m in Microsoft stock, almost 38 million shares would be worth about $2B today.
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