Machiavellian on 19 July 2013
| Train wreck said: You can easily tell microsoft bad decisions by the increasing number of writeoff the company is taking in order to perserve its crumbling monopoly. aQuantive $6 billion dollars Kin 500 million Surface tablets $900 million Not even close to break even on Online services (Bing) Next will be their writeoff of Skype because there will be no way the company will ever see any ROI from an 8 billion dollars spent on this deal for what a is essentially a free piece of software. In a lot of growth areas where Microsoft shows no monopoly power its being dominated by Google and Apple, couple that with slowing PC sales and slowing government purchases...I see why the stock is down 11% |
So how do you people account for the fact that MS has increase revenue and profits even with writeoffs each year. Its all well and good to read just a snippet of a report but if you read the whole thing you will see MS has increase revenue and profits from the previous year by a pretty good amount. Its really sad when forum posters make comments about things they have no real understanding on and also do not know how a certain business makes their money.
Look at the whole report and you will see that each major area MS compete they have gained profit and revenue. This does not sound like a company that is struggling to stay alive.
