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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by antiismist on Thursday June 26, 2008 @06:28PM (#229198)
If by worthless you mean making $14 billion last year than you are right.

http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:MSF...

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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by ivankirigin on Thursday June 26, 2008 @06:59PM (#229226)
You should buy stock in a company you think will grow. The two main components of MS are set to shrink drastically.

Stock in a dinosaur is worthless.

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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by blader on Thursday June 26, 2008 @08:04PM (#229263)
It's worth about $27 a share, by definition.
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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by markm on Thursday June 26, 2008 @11:41PM (#229398)
China.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/...

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Re:Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100... by logjam on Friday June 27, 2008 @01:03AM (#229470)
I won't put words in his mouth, but maybe he means worthless as in their products and technology are becoming more and more merely laughingstocks. M$ was a lucky lottery winner, leveraged their winnings via unethical business practices, and now is imploding.
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