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Microsoft takes $900 million loss due to Windows RT devices

article published on 18 July, 2013

Microsoft has reported its fiscal Q4 2013 earnings today, admitting to some unexpected losses and missing estimates. The company has reported revenue of $19.9 billion and profits of $4.97 billion, much lower than the analyst estimates of $20.74 billion in revenue and $5.51 billion profit. One of the biggest drags on earnings was the Windows RT-based Surface RT. The company has taken ... [ read the full article ]

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Bozobub
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_ 		18. July 2013 @ 22:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Heh.

Since I DON'T dislike saying so, at least in this case:
I TOLD YOU SO, MICROSQUISH! xD
*cough*
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coorva
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_ 		18. July 2013 @ 22:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
wait,,time to bring out Windows 9,,
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GryphB
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_ 		18. July 2013 @ 23:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So glad I don't use win 8 at work, let alone at home. Then again I don't use windows at home :D
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B2D327
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_ 		18. July 2013 @ 23:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
how many millions did they waste on advertising alone?...Yeah, I really want to buy a piece of technology after seeing a bunch of assholes dancing with it and a price drop isn't going to make a difference not to mention the job slashing that's about to take place in their marketing department.
I believe there was an article on AD about the tablets being almost impossible to repair too. Microsoft is on the verge of collapse.
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mukhis
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_ 		18. July 2013 @ 23:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
MS thought they could sell surface RT? if you think about performance and user experience, this is worst tablet ever from a big shot (at par with crappy tabs from blackberry, karbonn, micromax, and so on).
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nonoitall
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_ 		19. July 2013 @ 04:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They could have paid me $450 million and I would have warned them it would fail.
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_ 		19. July 2013 @ 08:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by mukhis:
 MS thought they could sell surface RT? if you think about performance and user experience, this is worst tablet ever from a big shot (at par with crappy tabs from blackberry, karbonn, micromax, and so on).
To be fair, the playbook was worse...and I think Blackberry was still technically a big shot back then. Actually...if there was ClockWorkMod for the Surface RT (and if they were not colored like eggs at easter), I wouldn't mind spending $150 on the 64GB touch cover version...only $400 more discount to go.
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xnonsuchx
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_ 		20. July 2013 @ 01:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
[INSERT NELSON LAUGH]
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_ 		22. July 2013 @ 11:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Does anyone remember when Cisco tried to break into the Tablet market? Then also the HDTV market as well with an HD webcam permanently mounted on top?
Both of which crashed & burned!
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