{"id":2760,"date":"2012-07-22T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2317293"},"modified":"2012-07-22T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T16:00:00","slug":"microsoft-posts-its-very-first-losing-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-posts-its-very-first-losing-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Posts Its Very First Losing Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has never reported a loss in its 26 years as a public company until Thursday when a gargantuan $6.19 billion write-down on aQuantative, the online ad agency it acquired in 2007 for $6.3 billion to compete against Google, plus $540 million in deferred revenue on Windows 8 nominally caused it to lose money.<br \/>\nIt lost $492 million or six cents a share on revenues up 4% to $18.06 billion. It made $5.87 billion, or 69 cents a share last year. Excluding the adjustment Microsoft would have made 73 cents a share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2317293\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has never reported a loss in its 26 years as a public company until Thursday when a gargantuan $6.19 billion write-down on aQuantative, the online ad agency it acquired in 2007 for $6.3 billion to compete against Google, plus $540 million in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}