Tech titans have started graduating into a new class of stock. Microsoft has been paying dividends for more than a decade. Cisco Systems followed suit three years ago, and Apple kicked off its own dividend
Microsoft spent years letting competitors slowly eat away at its PC business. The company was slow to respond to the introduction of tablets and that lost it a chunk of business perhaps permanently.
A flood of cheap Microsoft Windows 8.1 tablets recently hit the market, just in time for the holiday shopping season. Several of these low end devices will cost as little as $99 during Black Friday, matching the