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Microsoft Announces Payouts to Investors (washingtonpost.com)







Microsoft Announces Payouts to Investors
(washingtonpost.com)

Microsoft Announces Payouts to Investors
(washingtonpost.com)
07/20/2004 10:54 PM

washingtonpost.com - Microsoft Corp., which has amassed an unparalleled cash hoard of nearly $60 billion from its world-dominating software business, announced yesterday that it would return a large chunk of it to shareholders, much of it through a one-time dividend of $3 for every share held by investors.




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