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Microsoft Has Lost $5.5 Billion On Bing Since 2009

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @08:01AM from the feed-the-cash-fired-stove dept.

Landing on slashdot for the first time, MightyMartian writes "According to CNN Money, Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since its launch in 2009. But it gets even better. If you include Microsoft's other online offerings, all the way back to 2007, the losses are somewhere in the neighborhood of $9 billion. But not to worry, analysts expect Bing to become profitable in 'three to four years.'"

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Just a little while by tsa · 2011-09-20 08:09 · Score: 5, Funny

"Analysts expect Bing to become profitable in 'three to four years."
That's about as long as it takes for Linux to reach the desktop.

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