#2 The Xbox Was Never Going To Make Up The Slack, And Microsoft Can No Longer Afford To Keep Investing In It

Microsoft's reinvention of the Xbox has become a big bright spot for the company. It's been a great entry point for Microsoft to take over the living room. But taking in the criteria how big the Microsoft is, Xbox isn't enough to be a helping strand of grass for the drowning person. Microsoft had made $21 billion revenue last year, where as Xbox had $364 million in income, so, Xbox isn’t going to be enough to boost Microsoft when its rest of the businesses collapsing.

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#1 Microsoft Suffers A Huge Quarterly Loss

In 2012, Microsoft had its first ever quarterly loss as a public company, as this loss was because of company’s $6.2 billion acquisition of aQuantive, it did not have adverse effect over Investors. If Microsoft had incurred a real loss people would have freak out. Going by the company’s huge value, such loss is less likely to occur anytime soon.