Microsoft's Surface RT tablet sees the company with a $900 million write-down for the poor performing tablet

It looks like Microsoft haven't had a good run with their Surface RT tablets according to their quarterly and full-year financial results. Microsoft have just finished their fourth financial quarter, where they saw revenues of $19.9 billion and an operating profit of just over $6 billion for the three-month period.

Just how bad was the Surface RT for Microsoft? Well, the Redmond-based giant included a $900 million write-down to pay for the slate, that's how bad. In the first paragraph of their latest financial report, Microsoft says: "These financial results include a $900 million charge, or a $0.07 per share impact, related to Surface RT inventory adjustments."

Microsoft really missed the mark when it came to predicting consumers' purchasing habits on the Surface RT, with many estimating that Microsoft made as many as six million Surface RT's. Obviously a bunch of these didn't sell, at all, but according to Brian Hall, the General Manager of Surface marketing, "Microsoft is 100 percent committed to Surface RT and Windows RT going forward and has no plans to drop work on either product."