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Roboprog on July 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever

I wonder why MS decided to take the $6B write-down at this moment (from a 5 year old "investment") to engineer the report as a "loss"?

teamonkey on July 20, 2012 [–]

Probably a mix of accounting rules and wanting to do it before Win8 launches.

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