Microsoft reports first loss as public company

[antowan]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/compan...oss/56340272/1

Microsoft said Thursday that an accounting adjustment to reflect a weak online ad business led to its first quarterly loss in its 26 years as a public company.

The software company had warned that it was taking a $6.2 billion charge because its 2007 purchase of online ad service aQuantive hasn't yielded the returns envisioned by management.

[Arthur]

Trading profit was $6 billion. The aQantive acquisition was a bad move, now finally written off.