Microsoft CEO Nadella: don't confuse Xbox with company's "core"

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Burek said:

kowenicki said:
I'm staggered (who am i kidding) at the way some of you are reading all of this. I am even more amazed some of you see is as some sort of doom announcement for MS.

Doom all you want... meanwhile MS spend $7bn on nokia devices and will post another huge profit for the year.... They have increased profits pretty much year on year for a while now with no sign of that letting up .

As for his references to Xbox... it is very clear he seen synergy, development opportunities that cross divisions and opportunities for it to add to the brand of MS. For what they spend on Xbox as a proportion of their income and other expenditure. its likely a bargain.

I actually see all of these statements as a nod to shareholders. He is reassuring them that he understands their core and that he is focussed on it but that Xbox can be a good and very useful addition to that core.

I haven't seen a single post ever since i've been a member here, and before while just reading the posts, that has made a doom announcement for Microsoft. That would be rather silly.

Doom announcements for XBox, however, are not silly at all, and are mostly based on facts, figures, and statements from both internal and external sources.

Sure, perhaps nothing will come out of it, but there is a certain probability that it could happen. And that's what people on this forums are debating - chances, outlooks, probabilities, successes and failures of past. present and future.

@BOLDED: What internal doom announcements have you heard because I am pretty up on this stuff and there have been none.  If you could provide some links to these facts please do so.  As for external, where have you actually seen something meaningful.  

Are you talking about those investors people keep bringing up.  The same investors who have absolutly no vote on the direction MS goes.  You know, the same investors who only do slash and burn type of deals to get the most out of their investment.  The same type of investors that are asking Sony to spin off the PS division which isn't going to happen either.  Everytime i see people bring up these so called investors I just cringed because I know people have not done one ounce of research and thus is reguratating what somebody else has said on the net.

The chance that MS is going to spin off the Xbox division is just about the same as Sony spinning off the PS division and Nintendo turning into sega.