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You all make excellent points.

All I'm saying is that I wish Microsoft would hire more people with the profit they make.

Look what INTEL did last year in the middle of the worst recession since the great depression.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29120782

Anyone who has covered Intel during its 41-year history knows the company's strategy during tough economic times: You gotta spend money to make money, and you can't grow the business without investing in its future. Otellini used the podium at the Economic Forum in Washington, DC this morning to unveil a $7 billion manufacturing initiative over the next two years to add capacity and upgrade existing wafer fabrication plants in Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon, with plans to add 7,000 high-wage jobs in the process.

It's the largest plan of its kind in Intel's history