ECONOMICS - This Company's Still Throwing Good Money After Bad

For all of the talk about Microsoft's perceived irrelevance, investors often forget that this is a company that still produces a significant amount of cash flow. The problem, however, has been the company's inability to effectively deploy its capital. Too, Microsoft's biggest challenge is convincing a market filled with pessimism that it can finally shed its PC dependency. So it came as a surprise when the company made a $2 billion investment in Dell.

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