| dallas said: I'm not asking you to accept my opinion, rather I am only asking that you look the figures up and decide for yourself. Go to this link showing microsoft's financial statements, and then look at its balance sheet, the cash portion of which specifically. You will see that MS does indeed have about $6.1 billion in cash so yes, they would have to get financing for the deal which would most likely be debt. http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY07/earn_rel_q4_07.mspx |
They also have $27billion in short term investments and total "current" assets of around $50 billion, using the link you just provided. "Current" assets, especially short-term investments are highly liquid, meaning they can quickly be turned into cash.
Microsofts divisions are all fully funded and their Vista operating system and Office 2007 are now in the EARNING stage of the product-life-cycle. What that means is that the majority of expenses associated with these products (MS's largest and most profitable ones) are ALREADY PAID.
Pick up an economics text book and have a quick read. The only thing that could stop MS from purchasing SE is shareholder politics and a belief that it isnt neccessary, NOT FINANCE.
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