Topic: KIN cost Microsoft over $240m and ate up Xbox profits

Decent financial performance aside, there was one thorn in Microsoft’s paw during the company’s results call and that was the KIN write-off.  With the handsets themselves ousted from Verizon stores and sales frozen, all that was left was to figure out how much of the company’s cash had been wasted overall.

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