Blogs Jul 18, 2013 at 2:09 pm

Microsoft Disappoints with a Massive $900 Million Surface RT Write-Off

Paul Constant
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Fuck Microsoft.

When you take over the world with shitty products, you get what you deserve.

I don't know anybody that hasn't been screwed by Microsoft at one time or another.
CPN on July 18, 2013 at 2:20 PM Report this
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Let's see: 10% revenue increase, 25% profit - Yeah, those are clearly terrible results.
pragmatic on July 18, 2013 at 2:21 PM Report this
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@1 Your personal grudge is not a valid basis for securities investment.
pragmatic on July 18, 2013 at 3:07 PM Report this
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@3 is correct. MSFT is mostly a holding company.

That said, Ballmer needs to leave. Now.
Will in Seattle on July 18, 2013 at 3:31 PM Report this
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@4 I dunno, in every financially important measureable way(revenue, profit, EPS, dividends, etc), Ballmer has done better than Gates. Share price is the only metric by which Bill Gates performed better than Steve Ballmer.
pragmatic on July 18, 2013 at 3:50 PM Report this
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@5 via @4

And keep in mind, even during that time, Ballmer was Gates' #2(He's been with Microsoft since 1980), so he deserves some credit, more than he often gets, for those years as well.
pragmatic on July 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM Report this
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@5 And the share price gains during the 1990's were mostly Microsoft riding the general technology stock wave, and had little to do with they way the company was running. Microsoft has been since inception a very well run company from a financial perspective, which is all that should matter to investors.
pragmatic on July 18, 2013 at 3:55 PM Report this
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Proof positive that American corporate capitalism is toxic. Increase your revenues by 10 percent? Fuck you, we wanted 11 percent.
keshmeshi on July 18, 2013 at 3:59 PM Report this
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#4

How else is the Fed going to circulate dollars to the northwest?
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on July 18, 2013 at 4:13 PM Report this
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@9 lower BPA prices.
Will in Seattle on July 18, 2013 at 5:13 PM Report this
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Especially for a company doing 11-figure business each quarter. Come on, I want those 150% annual returns from the 90s back!!
maddogm13 on July 18, 2013 at 8:35 PM Report this
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Surface Pro (x86 version with full Win8 OS) sales are decent for a table that costs 900$.

The RT tablets (ARM based) were a total bomb. Who in their right mind would pay 500$ for a tablet who's hardware specs are identical to Android tablets costing 250$ less.
Kinison on July 19, 2013 at 5:48 AM Report this
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Microsoft gave away - GAVE AWAY - 10,000 Surface RTs to classroom teachers at an education conference I went to recently. A) Decent way to start to break the iPad monopoly in schools. B) Good way to get rid of inventory.

I honestly haven't even turned mine on yet... Apparently it won't work with our school network anyway.
lblah on July 20, 2013 at 2:09 PM Report this

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