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Re:Microsoft Losing Against iPod, iPhone, iOS, iMessage, Sla... by dfrage on Monday April 15, 2019 @01:51PM (#19667215)
> I believe there was a $2b writedown on the Surface RT, as well as $7b + on the botched Nokia acquisition. Those are failures you can attribute actual dollar figures to.

You can add $1 billion for the discontinued in 48 days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Kin Kin social networking phone, in which they also scored an own goal against their cloud offerings by trashing the database running their purchased userbase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_data_loss_2009

The total losses, official or not, have got to run into the tens of millions.

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Re:Microsoft Losing Against iPod, iPhone, iOS, iMessage, Sla... by scarface74 on Monday April 15, 2019 @01:59PM (#19667309)
Don’t forget they also bought Danger for $500 Million.
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Re:Microsoft Losing Against iPod, iPhone, iOS, iMessage, Sla... by dfrage on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:44PM (#19667737)
I assume part of that is part of $1 billion total, it gets a bit complicated since they bought a going concern, and T-Mobile forced them to finish satisfying the requirements in the contact they assumed.

Which was part of why the Kin was so late, they moved every Danger employee they retained who was working on the Hiptop line to the Kin, then had to pull a bunch back to finish 2 more versions. Who could have guessed that Deutsche Telekom could pose a serious threat to Microsoft?

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