Microsoft sells its stake in Nook back to Barnes & Noble -- loses almost $200 million in 2 years

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pokoko said:

walsufnir said:

But as always, media is especially mentioning more the bad decisions than the good ones. And of course representatives talk bullshit sometimes, not only Ballmer. Pointing to the failures we all know of doesn't help as MS is healthy as never before.

Making "tons" of mistakes in this time we live is as natural as breathing. You can't be a dynamic and evolving company and make only decisions which are completely safe to foresee in the future.

You know, you don't actually seem to be disputing what I'm saying, but rather things I never said at all, so I'm kind of confused at the direction of this conversation.

Microsoft's most profitable division isn't even the windows division it is the business division where nearly half of there total profits come from. In fact it is now down to the 3rd most profitable part of MS behind there server and tools division. There enterprise footprint especially in Database, server and dev tools, cloud and office have been massively successful, but you don't hear about that stuff as consumers have no interest in it. They make far more good decisions and investments than bad, but like any large company they certainly make there share of bad decisions, in the case of MS a lot of those have been more in the consumer stuff which is more visible to people like you.