Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

[amicus_curious]

"Ian Hilliard" <nospam@hilliardtech.com> wrote in message 
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> amicus_curious wrote:
>
> > "Rjack" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> > > With the advent of the Obama administration, it is generally
> > > expected that the Justice Department and the FTC will become much
> > > more aggressive in antitrust enforcement matters.
> > >
> > > With Microsoft's OS share hovering around 90%,
> > >
> > > http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8
> > >
> > > how can Microsoft best subtly assist OSX and Linux in order to
> > > avert antitrust prosecutions under the new administration that will
> > > resemble those in the EU?
> > I think that the Obama administration is more likely to consider the
> > adverse
> > effect of such silly prosecution on the overall economy.  Consider that
> > Microsoft is a large company that generates more than 60B worth of 
> > revenue
> > per year.  Why would the Obama administration try to hold them in check?
> > Why would they favor replacing that 60B company with a collection of open
> > sourcerers who rely on trade in kind and are adverse to such levels of
> > profits?  Would destroying Microsoft help the economy?  I don't think so
> > and I doubt that Obama's advisors are going to recommend that course of
> > action.
> >
> > Microsoft has absorbed the EU fines with ease since their prices in the 
> > EU
> > are significantly higher than elsewhere in the world.  They will stay in
> > the EU as long as it is profitable to do so and so far it has been.
>
> Large corporations, like Microsoft, are extremely good at tax avoidance. 
> In
> Microsoft's case, it appears that Microsoft are not paying tax on the
> income made outside the US as this all goes through Ireland, where the tax
> bill is much lower. The tax money going to Ireland is not helping the US
> economy.
But it presumably helps Ireland and the rest over there.  What is your 
point?

> Microsoft is taking its profits to buy back its own shares. It is my
> understanding that that is considered an operating expense and as such the
> money is not taxable.
You have a faulty understanding.

> Large corporations like Microsoft are also offshoring their work as fast 
> as
> they can. They are not increasing the employment in the US, they are
> reducing it.
You offer no evidence of this.

> The simple fact is that a large number of middle sized companies doing the
> same work as Microsoft would be much better for the US economy than the 
> one
> big Microsoft.
How could that be?  Would consumers benefit by paying more for the same 
thing?