Microsoft again took a hit on its Surface business, the company acknowledged Tuesday.



From Computerworld:

For the June quarter, Microsoft said Surface had booked $409 million in revenue, a 16% decline from the previous quarter. Microsoft has never said what revenue it recorded in the 2013 June quarter -- instead it lumped that quarter with two others, Q4 2012 and Q1 2013, tallied the trio and came up with $853 million -- so a year-over-year comparison was impossible.

But unlike the past two quarters, Microsoft has not revealed the cost of revenue associated with the Surface for the June period, at least in the 8-K document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday.

Even so, Microsoft did admit to losses in the prepared remarks read by chief financial officer Amy Hood during the call with Wall Street analysts yesterday, as well as in the 8-K.

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