| dallas said: Research and Development was 14% of revenue, which is a pretty high number. That's why we hear all about patents from google glass, search, mobile, etc. MSFT might have 10% of monies generated from revenues going to R&D, they just can't spend as much bc of that super high dividend payout ratio. 45% of all of MSFT's profits have to go to a dividend.... R&D for MSFT is going to go down, it has to. And therefore, eventually MSFT won't be able to patent troll google anymore, so android will become profitable when this happens. |
I am going to bed in a few minutes, just some input here:
1st: 10% of MS revenue is still more than 14% of Googles revenue.
2nd: paying a dividend is not a bad thing to do. You act like MS bribes investors.
3rd: 45% dividend is wrong. It is 32%
4th: There are more indicators for great R&D than money spent for it. A great idea, a cool innovation does not need to be expensive.
5th: How is MS "patent trolling" google?
Imagine not having GamePass on your console...
