Microsoft Surface revenue much less than its advertising costs

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Microsoft's Surface tablet has made Microsoft a mere $853 million - less than the amount it spent advertising the struggling tablet and operating system Windows 8.
The company has kept quiet on Surface sales ever since its iPad-rival launched last October, but Microsoft has had to reveal the amount of money the tablet generated since then as part of its annual disclosure to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (via GeekWire).
Surface generated $853 million (£560m), Microsoft revealed. That sounds like a high number, but the company had already confirmed it would take a $900m hit in inventory costs following its recently-announced price drop.
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