Microsoft Earnings Announcement - July 22nd 2010

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MonstaMack said:

I still don't understand why MS went through with the Kin in the first place - it not only cost them a lot of money but the sales were a epic dissapointment, they pulled the plug in what, two to three weeks after it launched?

Overall it looks like MS knows what they are doing with the XBox brand - and if Kinect is a major success the profits are going to rise pretty quickly. MS has come a long way since the original XBox and would be profitable overall right now if it weren't for RROD costs(and known as the Red Dot of Death on the new 360) - which have been drastically reduced since the Jasper and Falcons were introduced, and *hopefully* will be 5% or less with the new 360 revision.

I assume it was something to do with the Danger aquisition.  They felt they needed to go through with it.  I think when it gets down to it this major flub was the reason some heads rolled in EDD this past qtr.