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Good luck with your future endevours.

Last post!

All spelling intentional.

People seem to forget that Bill Gates saved Apple (made a substantial investment) or they *would* have gone bankrupt. Gates also bailed out... Sun Microsystems.

Market caps are meaningless in a vacuum: PE ratios, cost of good sold, gross margins would favor Microsoft. Apple relies on creating the next big fad, first time they fail the stock will tank. Remember the Newton?

Microsoft on the other hand makes huge margins selling the same thing... over and over and over again.