Report States That Microsoft in Billion Dollar Talks with Dell

Rumours are rife that Microsoft maybe looking at new ways to pep up its hardware offerings in the coming years. One report stands out and concerns popular PC maker, Dell.

With Microsoft expending a great deal of energy, and resource attempting to counter Apple and Android devices via its underwhelming Surface hardware, the company is in need of a way of staying in the game - the hardware game, in fact the new hardware game - but not throwing stock holders money away.

Outside of the Xbox 360 and some controllers, Microsoft's hardware history is not stellar. It's good at - or traditionally good at - software. In the modern age, its needs to be good at marketing software to the consumer, in the same spectacular fashion that Apple has been, and in the way that giant Google wishes to.

What better than to use the hardware and consumer expertise of Dell? So, when CNBC reports that: "Microsoft is in talks with Silver Lake Partners and Dell's CEO Michael Dell to invest $1 billion to $3 billion in a leveraged buyout of the PC maker, sources close to the matter told CNBC Tuesday," it makes sense to take it seriously.



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