Microsoft's game division suffers $1.89B shortfall

[Zaphod]

As long as Microsoft keeps showing investers a 40% ROI based on their stock price, based on the previous 12 months, I don't think they will care. A 1.89 billion charge taken when you have revenues of 13.37 billion for a quarter is not going to make a huge difference to shareholders...yet.

It's interesting to note that the stock price has soared over the past 12 months even with all the losses annouced by Microsoft. Their software side is so lucrative and so profitable that big losses in other divisions are easily offset.