Investors want Microsoft’s new CEO to kill Xbox, Bing and Surface

Considering just how big of a financial black hole Xbox has been throughout the years, it's not surprising.

Some sources say the 360 lost about 3 billion[1] while others that it lost 2.5 billion PER year[2].

The Xbone lost about 1 billion dollars so far (was expected to lose 2)[3]

And it's not just Microsoft that is losing money on these consoles, Sony is in the read as well. [4]

[1]: http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-h...

[2]: http://www.destructoid.com/analyst-microsoft-losing-2-billio...

[3]: http://bgr.com/2013/11/26/xbox-one-profit-estimate/

[4]: http://www.vg247.com/2013/01/07/xbox-360-and-ps3-losses-tota...

Killing XBox brand and not killing Windows Phone? I don't understand. WP8 is getting numbers hugely thanks to very cheap Lumia 520, which, to my understanding, is barely generating any profit or is even generating loss. And even then I haven't seen anyone who said "Wow, this is great, my next phone must have WP in it!"... a priori fanbois aside.

Well they already killed their XNA framework...

Probably not.

This is about the myopic quarter to quarter focus on profits by the market, the stock market in the last 30 years has been increasingly unable to to focus on the long game - if it does generate income or profit by the next quarter, its rubbish.

This attitude has wormed its way all through the economy, its part of why its hard to get a company to promote from within - they expect their employees to come from the outside with all the tool/skills/knowledge to hit the road running - even if they are at a significant disadvantage in actually understanding a companies operations. It used to be you could get an entry level job and company X, and expect a regular set of promotions up the chain, now, to get that promotion, you need to go work some place else almost.

OS X. Now free