Alby_da_Wolf on 22 October 2009
Truth hurts.
Anyhow, for people not able to google, only bribes to studios to make them join HD-DVD were several tens or even hundreds millions for each.
About losses, it has been written thousands times how MS blurs them in reports, one method is that big all-purpose cauldron called "Corporate-level activity"(*).
Edit: (*) http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar09/10k_fr_not_21.html - Note that in previous years reports MS explained, though always in small print, a lot better what "Corporate level activity" consists of.
