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Windows NT 5 has excellent chance of shipping this fiscal millennium. Microsoft - Safe At Any Price. Maffei, speaking at Microsoft Corp.'s annual analysts' meeting July 23, didn't mean for his comments to be taken seriously, and he spent the rest of his presentation trying to convince analysts that Microsoft stock is too expensive, rather than undervalued. According to Microsoft, the company's soaring stock price hurts its recruitment efforts, as hot techies prefer taking their chances with a start-up whose stock has more upside potential left. But despite Maffei's hopes that analysts will suddenly downgrade Microsoft stock en masse, one group at Microsoft thinks analysts are overlooking the contribution they' ve made - the Interactive Media Group.