Microsoft's online sinkhole: $8.5 billion lost in 9 years

Microsoft has completed a year and, not surprisingly, the company has more than  a billion dollars down the drain online services division brought to life.
The loss of the  fiscal 2011: $ 2.56 billion, slightly worse than the decrease of $ 2.33 billion in 2010. For the second consecutive year, Microsoft  s line losses were larger than the result of  annual operating Bing and his friends are. Microsoft  sl  online unit of  fiscal 2011 revenues of $ 2.53 billion and $ 2.2 billion for  fiscal 2010. Fortunately for Microsoft, the company  another cash cow at home profits (Declaration, TechMeme).
Microsoft  mission is  be mentioned in the result d  the operation is really  a student district of Bing.
As already mentioned, was, if you score a goal for  lost years before Microsoft  and online, the software giant is durable, but can not this thing online. Now Microsoft is struggling to find revenue. But he struggled throughout the  years.

Here  and you're the way to the loss of 8.56 billion over nine years:

During the years 2011 and 2010,  want and  investment Azure Google was serious about saving the division of cloud services, once.

For  year 2009 a loss of  operations were $ 1.65 billion dollars in revenue from the online  e $ 2.12 billion

In  2008, Microsoft has lost $ 2.2 billion in turnover  business of 578 million.

For  2007, Microsoft  s Online l  unit lost $ 2.43 billion on revenues of $ 732 million.

In  2006, Microsoft  line unit s, a gain of $ 5,000,000, or $ 2.3 billion in sales. (Note that the reported net income for  2008. Fiscal Year 2007 to 2006, a benefit for  exploitation of 74 million.)

In  2005, Microsoft  s Online unit, a profit of 2.34 billion dollars in sales of 402 billion dollars. The main point of 10K, which sounds a little familiar:

In  2005, a new version of its search engine technology MSN. These changes contribute to the ability  innovate faster and the chances  a competitive advantage to develop long-term research. In addition to the launch of MSN Search, there are a number of new products and product enhancements for  2005, including a new version of the page  MSN Home, the largest ease  use, faster loading times to a new level of personalization  end user, and less than  ads and links. MSN has launched an advertising program in light of  2005, paid advertising on search results pages, l  registration and following the decrease in the number of  ads that are returned in search results removed.

For  2004, Microsoft  s MSN line division reported a profit of $ 121 million on revenues of $ 2.21 billion e

In  2003, reported the  online unit of Microsoft (MSN) loss  operation of $ 1.95 billion on revenue of $ 567 million.

In  2002, reported the  online unit of Microsoft (MSN) loss  operation of $ 1.57 billion on sales of  business of 909 million.
In recent years Microsoft  operational activities online and consumer software, Services Division and devices, so that the results are not comparable. It is also important to note that some of the gains and losses are included in the SEC, the change of  year to year, but not enough to move the  needle much.
The bottom line of Microsoft  online efforts, it is rarely the green. The drive online is more like a bottomless pit of  money.

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