Microsoft draws over 3 billion dollars out of Norway yearly. We are many that want this number much, much closer to zero. At it's small steps like this that makes it possible.

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gizajob 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Your sovereign wealth fund probably makes 3 billion dollars out of Microsoft yearly.

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kivle 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The fund owns about 1.26% of Microsoft (data seems to be for 2025), which according to Gemini is about $37.5b in today's value. Stock value of Microsoft changed about 5.23% over the last year, which comes down to about $1.96b, so you're not far off...

https://www.nbim.no/no/investeringene/investeringsoversikt/#...

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gizajob 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What about including dividends? The price of MSFT also dropped like a stone recently.

But anyway if you guys could stop forcing Microsoft on everybody that would be great.

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oever 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have a reference for that number?

It's hard to get numbers on what countries pay to Microsoft. The Dutch parliament has repeatedly asked and has not gotten numbers even though there is a whole agency since 2014 (https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/overzicht-van-alle-onderwerp...) specifically for giving Microsoft preferential treatment in procurement.