Company Review - Why Buy Microsoft Stock

For Investors in the Stock Market Who Look for Value, Microsoft is a Good Buy at Its Current Price

There's a very simple reason Microsoft (MSFT) is a bargain at its current price: only geeks speak Latin.

Say what you want about the superiority of Unix. The awesome server capability of Linux. The ease of a Macintosh. To the average user these operating systems might as well be coded in a dead language. Your every day John Smith wants to learn only enough to be able to jump on the back of a giant hay truck trundling down the information highway, not ratchet a street legal Ferrari through a ten gear stick on the Autobahn.

Let's forget all of Microsoft's peripheral interests such as the Xbox and get down to the core issue that represents long-term value—software.

For our purposes think of Windows as a central belief system with the power to adapt itself to any common tongue. I'll explain.

In the 1500s the Catholic Church lost its stranglehold on the Christian faith because wouldn't give up on Latin. There was a major problem with their software: only the intellectual elite could understand the code. Parishioners didn't understand a single word and had no way to read their holy book, the early day equivalent of the internet. Unrest brewed.

When the Protestant Reformation hit Europe like a fat kid cannonballing into a swimming pool Christianity experienced resurgence in popularity. Suddenly people could jump into the details of their religion, the giant hay truck of its day, because it adapted itself easily to their native language, the personal computer.

This is the same kind of power drives the former, current, and future success of Windows as an operating system and Microsoft as a company. Yes, you can format your hardrive to speak difficult languages, but do you really want to go through all the trouble to learn it?