[i]For all newbies:If you start a business and you need a website, Microsoft offers a free (and nice) one that you easily can set up yourself.Good luck!

The other reason that the Markets have gone up is because Companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM etc. are buying back their own Stock, which lowers the amount of Shares outstanding and that raises the Value of the Stock.

IOTA caught my eye....Microsoft is interested and it seems like a very interesting way to share enormous volumes of data quickly.  

Nearly 15% of the S&P500's value is now concentrated in Apple & Microsoft stock.

We're north of Seattle, which is in a boom because of lucrative Amazon jobs amongst other tech kingpins like Microsoft. 

A lot of years ago, I wrote a technical paper on this topic (long before there were blogs or MicroSoft Word).

It seems like Microsoft and Google are at it again, only this is the battle of the social networks.

If you are comfortable with Microsoft Excel then you can create a spreadsheet to determine multiple ratios (cap rate, cash return, RV, etc) or you can use something more simple on paper. 

Ask any stock investor if they bought Wal-Mart, Google or Microsoft when they went public based on investment ratios alone.

We use the mail merge feature in Microsoft Publisher.