Microsoft shareholders still wary at meeting

Seattle PI | at | by Mike

Microsoft's executives touted the company's prospects for growth, and a crowd of attentive shareholders clearly wanted to believe, but many of them took a wait-and-see approach after their annual meeting Wednesday.

Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Steve Ballmer pointed to a wave of upcoming products, including a new Windows version and a second Xbox console. Ballmer also predicted that Microsoft's renewed push into online services would create "a major new revenue stream" for the company in the long run.