Microsoft owns 51% of Apple?

[homestarmy]

Well, a co-worker just told me that Microsoft owns 51% of Apple. Is this a rumor or have I just not been paying attention?

 

[Beau]

Doubt it very much.

Maybe 51% of the marketshare for office products for Mac.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Microsoft owns a small part of Apple (or at least they used to) its no where near 51% though.

 

[Quasmo]

I call BS

 

[DivideBYZero]

I thought it was 5% if at all.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
I thought it was 5% if at all.

last I read it was somewhere between 10 and 15% of the voting shares. I think that was a year or so ago.

 

[Mandos]

Yeah total BS for sure.

 

[n7]

That would be funny as hell...wouldn't there be some legal stuff protecting Apple from being completely bought out though, or no?

 

[KeithP]

From the Yahoo Finance page, the top 10 institutional shareholders range from 5.09% to 2% and none of them are Microsoft.

-KeithP

 

[LikeLinus]

Microsoft gave $150 Million dollars to Apple for stock..but non voting shareholder stock. They don't own anything in apple really.

 

[her209]

Apples suck btw.

 

[acemcmac]

you should really be wondering why a coworker would feel the need to bullshit like that around you....

 

[jammur21]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Microsoft gave $150 Million dollars to Apple for stock..but non voting shareholder stock. They don't own anything in apple really.

Yup. This was financial bailout money to help Apple stay afloat during their tough years. Microsoft was able to keep some of the anti-trust pressure off them in return.

 

[homestarmy]

Thanks guys, all good info.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: jammur21

Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Microsoft gave $150 Million dollars to Apple for stock..but non voting shareholder stock. They don't own anything in apple really.

Yup. This was financial bailout money to help Apple stay afloat during their tough years. Microsoft was able to keep some of the anti-trust pressure off them in return.

Bingo. Gates is a business genius (though not necessarily a computer genius).

ZV

 

[jst0ney]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: jammur21

Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Microsoft gave $150 Million dollars to Apple for stock..but non voting shareholder stock. They don't own anything in apple really.

Yup. This was financial bailout money to help Apple stay afloat during their tough years. Microsoft was able to keep some of the anti-trust pressure off them in return.

Bingo. Gates is a business genius (though not necessarily a computer genius).

ZV

sad and true