George P.
Quicken Rental Property Manager
9 March 2011 | 14 replies
It will likely continue to work just fine for ever, but if you ever need official help (just like Microsoft) and your product is too old - well, tough luck.I've resigned myself to buying new versions every 3 years just to make sure that if I ever need support, it's there.
Bryan Hancock
Business Focus With Constrained Resources
23 January 2011 | 30 replies
After reading this, the first thing that came to mind was:Microsoft Windows pulls in about $13B in profit per year with margins of about 80%...Given that, why does Microsoft take 75% of that $13B and put it back into the 40,000 employees, hundreds of products and half-dozen business units not focused on Microsoft Windows?
Justin Herrema
Vacation Rentals
6 February 2011 | 17 replies
Used to screen but ended up doing more screening than booking.2. no management company, family takes care of it.3. use craigslist only and a free website through microsoft that drives a lot of searches & bookings.
Dan Brindley
Landlords: Did You Ever Wish You Invested in the Stock Market Instead?
6 April 2011 | 25 replies
Looking at a long term chart of Microsoft shows that from May '86 to current, MSFT returned 25,618%.Of course, the #3 horse came in 1st in the 4th race yesterday.
JD H.
Real Prospect Software?
13 June 2010 | 10 replies
Use the money to take a Microsoft class and your local college.
Rich Weese
Obama likes offshore oil drilling--just not in our country for Americans' benefit
30 April 2010 | 68 replies
Not that I really care if you believe me, but I spent a long time at one of the most profitable companies in the world (Microsoft), and despite Tim's repeated jokes about being in "middle management," I was Director level (though Tim is welcome to make any jokes he likes).
J Scott
War is Making You Poor Act
1 July 2010 | 34 replies
Regarding your points about software development...I am working on a contract for Microsoft right now programming a monitor for their Zune back-end monitoring servers.
Mike N.
Help Finding Funding
13 July 2010 | 4 replies
Mike,I think MICROSOFT stock will hit $50 per share in a couple months.
Jackie Patterson
What do you want to do in retirement?
16 August 2010 | 16 replies
Last week I actually decided to take a job building drones for a local firm along with my contract Microsoft work.
Anthony Larson
put/call options
8 December 2009 | 3 replies
Generally, put options and call options are financial instruments affiliated with or derived from other financial instruments (stock or bonds).Call options allow the owner of the call to buy a stock at a predetermined price within a certain period.Put options allow the owner of the call to sell a stock at a predetermined price within a certain period.I buy a call on Microsoft which is currently trading at $25 per share.