Bill Gates Not Satisfied With Microsoft Innovation

[dallas]

happydolphin said:

dallas said:
Well, why wouldnt he be dissatisfied with the level of innovation? MSFT's stock has done absolutely nothing in the past 10 years, meanwhile Apple's stock has soared, heck, Google has just hit a new high today at $800. If the company simply performed better they'd get a certain expected return every year ( like 8% or whatever) but you just dont have that. Instead, the fans keep praising MSFT when all they've shown is mediocrity.

It's not horrible by any means, they're doing good and rebranding themselves, but it isn't phenomenal. I think that's what he meant in the interview.

It's pretty bad when you consider that BIll would have gotten a bigger return by getting a 0.6% savings account rate or whatever.  He could have just thrown the money kept in MSFT stock in some vault for 10 years and it would have done just as good, without all of the risk so in essense he would have made a better decision by just SELLING all of his MSFT stocfk and keeping it safe somewhere.