to me it sends the wrong signal to other share holders. Sell now while the share has a temporary peak.

their up and coming smart-phone business and being able to integrate that with their other online products like Bing will decide whether MS will grow or die. They are late in all domains, so they are gonna have to impress by pushing the experience to new heights.. which I doubt they will pull off considering they have a poor product development culture compared to apple and google.

He could've done even better by announcing his resignation and then selling on the Fiorina-like bounce it would have engendered.