I would have been very happy to own 4 losers for the one that went to the moon.

But he traded in and out of stocks, mostly losing money.

When I asked his trader what was going on, he said that when people pay for an advisor, they like to see a lot of action for their money.

So, perhaps Ballmer needs to justify his phony-baloney job by wheeling and dealing. Makes him “look busy” … a common motto for employees of large companies.

Then again, perhaps this signals Microsoft’s failure to build a solar powered data center in Seattle. Maybe the rain-powered data center idea never worked out right. I think it was named “Vista”

You just never know. However, if Yahoo provides the search, no doubt, like hotmail, when the Microsoft mandate to switch the servers from Unix to Windows comes down, it will all slow down to a slug-like crawl.