XBox Price Cuts – The financial effect on the division – A FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

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bumidan said:
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Entertainment and Devices Division (“EDD”) offerings include the Xbox 360 platform (which includes the Microsoft Xbox video game console system, Xbox 360 video games, Xbox Live, and Xbox 360 accessories), the Zune digital music and entertainment platform, PC software games, online games and services, Mediaroom (our Internet protocol television software), the Surface computing platform, mobile and embedded device platforms, and other devices. EDD leads the development efforts for our line of consumer software and hardware products including application software for Macintosh computers and Microsoft PC hardware products, and is responsible for all retail sales and marketing for Microsoft Office and the Windows operating systems. In April 2008, we acquired Danger, Inc. (“Danger”), a software-as-a-service company that provides mobile operators with an integrated end-to-end solution to deliver mobile data and Internet services to their subscribers.

So it includes mice, keyboards, etc., as well as retail sales of Office and Windows. I guess the ones that are not OEM versions.

So I'm not sure how much revenue they get from those.

However, maybe I lumped them all together with the Zune and Mobile segments.

So maybe all is good still.

Aaaaah....Got it.  EDD included far too much imho, and M$ will have to splinter it, going forward.  I can udnerstand puttign the consoles, media players and other things entertianment, but it makesit difficult to make meaningful appraisals based on what we know.