Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online (MSFT)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-microsoft-online-operating-income-2011-1

 Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online (MSFT)
 Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online (MSFT)  Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online (MSFT)

Every quarter Microsoft reports earnings, and every quarter it reports a massive loss in its online operations. Today it reported a $543 million loss for its December quarter.

This gives Microsoft a trailing-four-quarter loss of $2.5 billion. That’s simply astounding. We’ve asked it before, and we’ll ask it again: Has any company lost as much money online as Microsoft?

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