np2003 - 2:49 am on Feb 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

mikedee: Their last report actually shows cash reserves of around $21billion but this is going to be all spent on the yahoo deal. The profit was about $4.5bn last year, you must be thinking of revenue

That is incorrect, you are reading just one quarter, not their annual earnings. Did you just google something like MSFT profit and then paste that without looking at it carefully? Google made 4B profit last year compared to Microsoft's 17B. FYI, MSFT revenue was $58 billion last year. source -- [finance.yahoo.com...]