January 23, 2013

The Upside of Microsoft Part-Owning Dell

John Dvorak, PC Magazine


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News is breaking that Microsoft may toss in as much as $3 billion to help Dell go private. Over the past week it's now clear that Michael Dell has been wooing private equity investors to buy his company and maybe even his stake in the company and take the company out of the stock market.

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