2011/5/26 Narendra Sisodiya narendra@narendrasisodiya.com:
steve might left M$ because the BoD are not happy with the skype purchase
Do you have a source for this inside the Microsoft boardroom, or are you just indulging in rumour mongering?
As I requested, something authentic please - not one blogger's opinion. To be fair to the blogger, he doesn't say that the Microsoft board is unhappy with Ballmer or the Skype deal - only that he isn't.
(Plus, he seems to be evaluating Microsoft stock performance purely based on its price. Any financial analyst will tell you this is an incomplete analysis - one needs to consider the dividends as well.
From the chart in the page linked from the above, it can be seen that
Microsoft has been paying quarterly dividends since 2004. I'd say the story would be different if one considered the stock price adjusted for dividends).
Binand