Dell: "Uncertain adoption" of Windows 8 is part of its reason to go private

JMH · Mar 30, 2013

Dell announced its plans to back turn itself back into a private company via a leveraged buyout with help from a $2 billion loan from Microsoft, in early February. The plan, which would pay owners of the company's stock $13.65 a share, is already being challenged by two alternative buyout offers from outside parties.

While Microsoft may be chipping in to help raise the $24.4 billion needed for Dell's official leveraged buyout, a new filing made late on Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission states that the launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 OS was part of the reason why Dell felt now is the time for its change from a public to a private business.

Dell: "Uncertain adoption" of Windows 8 is part of its reason to go private - Neowin

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Dell: "Uncertain adoption" of Windows 8 is part of its reason to go private

JMH

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