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If by worthless you mean making $14 billion last year than you are right.

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

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.

It's worth about $27 a share, by definition.

China.

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

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.

MS Office is crashing down? What world do you live in?

they leave a negative impression in the minds of many smart developers"

They also have a lot of smart developers working for them ;)