Microsoft Fights Back Investors hope Windows 8 will resuscitate the share price

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YOU MIGHT THINK THE CASE for throwing in the towel on MICROSOFT (SYMBOL MSFT) is all but sealed. The onetime leader of the personal-computer age has struggled to keep up with more-innovative rival's in recent years. It failed in its bid to acquire Yahoo; continues to lose money on its search engine, Bing; and never seems to ' be able to cash in on the shift to mobile computing. Microsoft's stock has been a value trap for investors - what might have looked like a bargain has kept getting cheaper and cheaper.