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Microsoft may take major ($1-3B) stake in Dell as it goes private

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The deal is probably just as much about keeping Dell afloat as it is about keeping them from making Chromebooks.

From 1997:

When it comes to the state of Apple Computer, everyone has an opinion.

And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could be done to fix the Mac maker. His solution was a drastic one.

“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders,” Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives.

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