Microsoft finds it's business as usual
nbr.co.nz | at | by Mike
2002 was a good year for Microsoft -- certainly more so than 2001. And the optimism continues, with a distinctly Microsoft-friendly administration in power in the US that has as good as declared itself uninterested in pursuing the company through the courts for any corporate misdeeds it may or may not have committed in the past. Some have interpreted Microsoft's decision to pay shareholders a dividend for the first time as a token of appreciation designed to add credibility to the Bush administration's tax cuts for investors.