<story><title>Stephen Elop is the 7th biggest individual shareholder of Microsoft</title><url>http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=69745</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>powertower</author><text>So now Nokia&apos;s decision to replace Symbian has nothing to do with a careful analysis of the situation, but everything to do with keeping $3 million dollars worth of Microsoft stock on the up for 1 man?&lt;p&gt;I have not seen 1 insightful post since this FUD has been spreading. It&apos;s amazing how much petty hatred is out there towards Microsoft...&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t even think this has anything to do with Microsoft itself, but rather with people&apos;s psychological need to  create conspiracies, to see themselves as the little guy fighting the big guy, and pretend that they have knowledge / can see what other&apos;s can&apos;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>portman</author><text>And by the way, the ownership table that is linked to isn&apos;t even CORRECT. Not even remotely.&lt;p&gt;Sinofsky isn&apos;t listed, and just 2 weeks ago he reported 737,000 shares, which would make him #4 on that list. [1]&lt;p&gt;Ray Ozzie has just under 1 million shares, and again he&apos;s not listed. [2]&lt;p&gt;The way you assemble these kinds of tables is by mining the SEC filing Form 4, &quot;Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership of Securities&quot;. But you have to include &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; Form 4 for your data to be at all accurate.&lt;p&gt;So already we can see that Elop is #9, and that&apos;s just by me guessing two people who seemed conspicuously absent. There could be dozens of others. And don&apos;t forget that non-executives don&apos;t have to report their shares. I would bet a few grands that there are senior developers who have been working at Microsoft for 15 or 20 years who own more than $3M in stock.&lt;p&gt;In fact, I just cast my first ever &quot;flag&quot; vote on HN. (With gusto, I might add.) This doesn&apos;t deserve the #1 slot.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?FilingID=7676817-1025-11161&amp;#38;type=sect&amp;#38;TabIndex=2&amp;#38;companyid=8528&amp;#38;ppu=%252fdefault.aspx%253fsym%253dmsft&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://biz.yahoo.com/t/12/7827.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://biz.yahoo.com/t/12/7827.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Stephen Elop is the 7th biggest individual shareholder of Microsoft</title><url>http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=69745</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>powertower</author><text>So now Nokia&apos;s decision to replace Symbian has nothing to do with a careful analysis of the situation, but everything to do with keeping $3 million dollars worth of Microsoft stock on the up for 1 man?&lt;p&gt;I have not seen 1 insightful post since this FUD has been spreading. It&apos;s amazing how much petty hatred is out there towards Microsoft...&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t even think this has anything to do with Microsoft itself, but rather with people&apos;s psychological need to  create conspiracies, to see themselves as the little guy fighting the big guy, and pretend that they have knowledge / can see what other&apos;s can&apos;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kashif</author><text>Seriously? This is a clear case of conflict of interest. The scary thing is that you might be right about&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &apos;So now Nokia&apos;s decision to replace Symbian has nothing to  do with a careful analysis of the situation, but everything to do with keeping $3 million dollars worth of Microsoft stock on the up for 1 man&apos;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>