[300bps]

Share price is diving? As compared to what?

Well for starters let's compare MSFT to AAPL. Here's a chart comparing them over the last 12 months:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MSFT+Interactive#symbol=m...

If that link works correctly, any unbiased party will clearly acknowledge that in the past year Microsoft is up 15.5% (including today's slide) while Apple is down 30.0%.

So - the question becomes - precisely whose share price is diving? The clear answer is Apple, while Microsoft has done little but gone up over the last 12 months.

[CamperBob2]

That's because AAPL had something to lose. At their peak they were worth three DELLs more than MSFT.

[onebaddude]

Interesting.

At its peak, how much bigger was MSFT than Apple?

Hint: Lots.

[CamperBob2]

We're only concerned with recent history here, though, aren't we?

Everything I needed to know about Steve Ballmer -- and Microsoft's future -- I learned when he laughed at the iPhone on national TV.