What's worse than taking a $900M write-down for the Surface RT? How about watching your stock take a $32B hit the same day. Ouch.
The stock finished at $31.40, off $4.04 for the day. The percentage decline -- which wiped out more than $32 billion in stockholder value -- was the biggest slide in Microsoft's stock since the year 2000. More than 245 million shares traded hands compared with the 90-day average trading volume of 50 million.