Microsoft this morning gave Wall Street analysts new information about some recent behind-the-scenes reshuffling of its business groups. In the process, the company provided details about the financial performance of groups whose results are normally hidden in the numbers released for their parent divisions.

Most notably, Windows Live lost $560 million in Microsoft's 2009 fiscal year, on revenue of $520 million, according to one of the slides that accompanied the online presentation.

In addition, the slide shows a loss of $50 million, on revenue of $360 million, for Microsoft's Razorfish advertising agency in the 2009 fiscal year. Microsoft agreed to sell Razorfish to Publicis Groupe for $530 million last month in a deal scheduled to close in the fourth quarter of this year.

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