Forbes Columnist Claims Microsoft Will Sell Xbox To Sony — or Barnes & Noble

Forbes contributor Adam Hartung dropped a bomb on the business world this morning when he forecast the complete collapse of Microsoft's business and the company's sudden exit from the entertainment market. Hartung draws on Surface's mediocre sales and the PC market's woes to claim that "Microsoft makes nothing from its xBox/Kinect entertainment division."

He goes on to make dire predictions related to Windows, Office, and Microsoft's other businesses, but we're going to focus on the Xbox comments — they're easily the most entertaining.

Let's start with the claim that the Xbox division is unable to make a profit. That's easy to check — all we need to do is consult Microsoft's own press releases.