["The shorts won until today, and they would love to call it quits, except that they still have to cover. So the daily, hourly, smear capaign will go on until they finshed doing so or until the evidence becomes so large and shareholder base so wise, that smear campaigns on share boards wont be able to sway the odd soul despite the evidence in front of their eyes... "]
1) Until you see everyone who has some (entirely legitimate) concerns as part of a smear campaign, you're really not useful here. This good versus evil stuff works in Star Wars, but it's for kids really.
2) The importance of "the shorts" has been blown out of proportion:
- The short number is, considering the financial state the company in, fairly low, not high.
- It has also been fairly stable over the past year
- Most importantly, one doesn't need "the shorts" to explain the share price, the decrease in sales and worsening of the balance sheet and increasing share count do that all by themselves
3) A few people (like myself) simply want to know whether our supposed MSFT backing is based on anything more than just a comment by some MSFT guy, and if yes, what?
Now that would be helpful.