Hey just noticed Microsoft has doubled the annual dividend and the stock price is up to $28. Nice. Lots of speculation about how the dividend might rise further or there could be special one-off dividends. Seems to me Microsoft is trying to slowly make a transition to a culture where employee's receive and hold real stock and benifit from dividends. The strategy would keep stock holders as well as employee's happy. Overall, the return still isn't that good but the direction is right.