It's Quiet at Microsoft. Too Quiet?

By Paul Kedrosky · Monday, October 10, 2005 ·

I’ve had some interesting conversations lately with a number of folks who are much closer to Microsoft than I am. Not to be offensively vague, but more than a few people are hinting at something significant impending on the financial/strategic front.

Selling MSN? Dialing back R&D to a more reasonable number? Doing something greenfield? A DNA-disrupting acquisition? Hmmm …

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