<story><title>Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever</title><url>http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/19/12837611-microsoft-reports-first-quarterly-loss-ever?lite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forgottenpaswrd</author><text>Microsoft has been pouring money onto everything until they monopolize it. It worked really well and annihilated a lot of competitors by the way.&lt;p&gt;I remember the times Microsoft will literally buy you to develop for the xBox or DirectX. I was there and then I saw the people that got bought to say that they felt &quot;trapped&quot; and could not get out from MS tech.&lt;p&gt;But as new companies with big pockets got into the game, first Google, then the new Apple and then Facebook, the last one with so much money and not really knowing what to do with it, the game did not worked as well as before.&lt;p&gt;The Microsoft Zune did not work out, Life, Bing and now Lumia are not working out as expected, even after pouring billions from their desktop and Office monopoly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever</title><url>http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/19/12837611-microsoft-reports-first-quarterly-loss-ever?lite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xfax</author><text>Sensationalist title much?&lt;p&gt;From TFA: &quot;Analysts were expecting a $5.3 billion profit for the quarter, but that was canceled out by an even bigger loss on a five-year-old acquisition.&quot;&lt;p&gt;No, analysts were not expecting a $5.3B profit before the report; if they were they should probably not be in their jobs anymore. The after-hours price of MSFT shows that this news was already priced in and the loss was actually &lt;i&gt;smaller&lt;/i&gt; that what was expected.&lt;p&gt;Geez.</text></comment>