Microsoft Continues To Lose Money With Each Surface Tablet It Sells

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Revealed from a 10-Q (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312514157088/d695543d10q.htm) filed by Microsoft with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft has been losing $300 million and counting for the Surface (http://blogs.computerworld.com/tablets/23844/microsoft-loses-money-every-surface-it-sells-300-million-total-and-counting) in the last nine months. Data from Strategy Analytics has also revealed that Microsoft's Windows-powered tablets now own a 6% global tablet share (http://www.winbeta.org/news/strategy-analytics-windows-tablets-account-6-global-tablet-share-android-still-top), in Q1 of 2014. Android, on the other hand, remains at the top with a 66% global share. Apple's iOS fell to 28%."

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