Elop might be bad news for Xbox brand... or is he?

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Goatseye said:

stabface said:

Goatseye said:

 

Where did you get the source for this rationale?

That's my conclusion, almost entirely.  You know that elop did say that he would want to ditch bing and xbox if given the chance tight?  To gill in the rest, the wsj said that the new CEO would have a hard time going against balmer/gates if he wanted to ditch these properties bc it would make them look kinda foolish for supporting them.  Both are still on the board of directors, do they have considerable amounts of clout even today.

Ellop just said in a hypothetical way, last year, that he would've cut the non profitable divisions in the MS ranks if he was to be CEO.

Xbox division has been profitable for quite a while but it's not up to MS's satndards (Office, Azure, Windows, etc...)

Do you see the reasoning for dumping but like everyone else have no conclusive statements yo read from.  

Consider this, msft has a p/e of 13 right now, the higher this number is, the more positive investors are towsrd the stock.  Yet, the p/e is really low among its competitors who have a p/e of around 30.  Now msft has its enterprise side which is growing much faster than yhe consumer side.  Wouldn't it make sense to put resources where they will be used effectively?