-->Bill Gates hat gestern mal eben für round about 50 Mio. $ Microsoft Aktien verkauft:


WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates
sold 2 million shares of the company's common stock Tuesday, according to a
Form 4 filed Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Gates sold the stock for $25.69 to $26.02 a share. After the
transaction, he owned about 1.2 billion shares directly and 428,520 common
shares through his wife, the filing said.

Shares of Microsoft recently traded at $25.60, down 38 cents.

-Ben Siegel; Dow Jones Corporate Filings Alert; 202-862-3544


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