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Google has Mozilla LOCKED in through 2011.

Mozilla makes $50 - 80 million a YEAR from their search referrals.

But in context, MSFT has tens-of-billions in CASH sitting around, and is trying to win the internet space.

If they did a 1.5x revenue payout vs google (keeping in mind that's not all cash lay out, they net gains from use of their search engine) and dropped a billion in 5 years I would vote for that as a shareholder.



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They have tens of billions.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft

Balance Sheet Total Cash (mrq): 33.45B Total Debt (mrq): 6.00B Total Debt/Equity (mrq): N/A


and google has 24.48B, but what is more powerful is the revenue growth they have on top of that cash. Msft has a large market cap and can't grow like it used to, so goog's cash flow is going to allow for some pretty bold moves (acquisitions?)




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