Soleron on 19 July 2013
| kowenicki said
Just the $5bn profit this quarter and $27bn profit for the year then. |
The problem with that is that you could justify MS doing ANYTHING, no matter how little sense it makes, because the background revenue from just being Microsoft will cause quarterly profits anyway. MS could hand out $900m of cheeseburgers on street corners and it'd be OK.
The important message from this writedown is that certain people and departments within Microsoft have no idea what they're doing or what the market wants. If these people are promoted within the Windows division, eventually the background revenue will be under threat. There will come a time when a Windows device isn't necessary in every house or office.
