It's not that I don't appreciate saving money, but...

[solarbird]

Microsoft printed its Annual Report in black-and-white on newsprint, with no cover stock. Isn't that a bit... um... sad?

Maybe stockholders with only token numbers of shares (HI!) got the crap versions and real stockholders got real copies.

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[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

I think it went that way to everyone, because their online version is also mostly austere black & white.

How... odd.

(Lately, my job has mostly been researching company's financial statements, so Microsoft's austerity it really jarring on contrast to most of the ones I see.)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

SHRIMP.
AND
WEENIES!!!!!

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

They are "cutting costs" left and right because the shareholders expect ever-increasing profits. Pretty soon, you'll have to PAY to get the annual report. Eventually, you will have to pay to work at Microsoft. And after that, you'll have to put your unborn children into indentured servitude, all in the name of shareholder profit.

(Cynical? Who, me?)