Does Microsoft still own Apple Stock? (ala 1997)

[phaxmohdem]

I've been reading around the latest Mac World rumors and happened across one about Apples stock price climbing yet again, and it got me wondering if Microsoft still owned all that stock they purchased back in 1997?

 

[keeleysam]

No, they sold it off years ago, and even then, the shares were non-voting.

 

[phaxmohdem]

I know the shares were non-voting, I was getting at the value of the stock... and what they stood to gain monetarily if they were still holding it. I know they agreed not to sell it off for 3 years in that agreement, but You'd think they would have held on to it for a bit longer with the prices rising... unless Apple offered to buy it back at a handsome figure.