OUCH! MS has to write off >$6bn in Q4 to post a Q4 loss

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Millenium said:
Suprised this took so long to post. :P

Anyways, I don't really understand this concept of writing off their value?

Guess we'll see a ~1B loss for the quarter then, not favourable, but not too bad all things considering.

Then maybe you should have posted this sooner.  Just saying.