Sure that makes it outperform the S&P 500 over this arbitrary period, but still falls short from the other companies. It makes more sense though to look at it s

Sure that makes it outperform the S&P 500 over this arbitrary period, but still falls short from the other companies. It makes more sense though to look at it since he became CEO[1] in January of 2000. Now we see a huge difference with MSFT the only one in negative territory and the other companies having massive returns. Reinvesting dividends over this period would push this into positive territory, but it still wouldn't even outperform the S%P 500 (22.57% vs 34.99%). [1] https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1408488110378&chddm=1433797&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=NASDAQ:AAPL;NASDAQ:GOOG;NASDAQ:AMZN;NYSEARCA:SPY&cmptdms=0;0;0;0&q=NASDAQ:MSFT&ntsp=0&ei=jdHzU-jIFMqfrAHHp4GoCA https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...