Snippet from a newswire article about Microsoft's recent quarterly results:
Separately, Connors said the company would offer details at its July analysts meeting on plans for its $56 billion in cash and short-term investments.
Yep, I've been waiting for this. C'mon! They have got to either use the money or give it out to share holders. Any kind of large company purchase would meet huge resistance given their monopoly rulings. They'll get rapped if they try to get into any new business (banking?). The institutional stock holders must be pushing for getting a piece of it through a dividend. I doubt the board will complain about this too much since management acccounts for somewhere around 20% of stock ownership. I'm waiting to see a big dividend any time now.