Thursday, January 16, 2003

Joel On Software: Mouth Wide Shut When Apple releases a new product, they tend to surprise the heck out of people, even the devoted Apple-watchers who have spent the last few months riffling through garbage dumpsteron the other hand, can't stop talking about products that are mere glimmers in someone's eye. Testers outside the company were using .NET for years before it finally shipped. So, which is right? Should you talk endlessly about your products under development, in hopes of building buzz, or should you hold off until you've got something ready to go? Mouth Wide Shut [Joel on Software] 11:40:57 PM

Microsoft splits stock, sets dividend The software giant sets its first-ever annual stock dividend and says it will split its stock as earnings surpass expectations. [CNET News.com] well, there you go. that didn't take long. 11:39:10 PM

MS stuck with growing cash problem [ZDNet Tech News] It's clear that the day MSFT pays dividends is not far off -- no argument to be made that they can invest the money better than their shareholders. 11:38:56 PM