Microsoft to cut workforce by 18,000 this year

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Microsoft To Cut Workforce By 18,000 This Year, ‘Moving Now’ To Cut First 13,000
by Darrell Etherington

SEATTLE: -- Microsoft has announced major layoffs today as predicted, following a company email published by CEO Satya Nadella last week that signalled changes on the way.

In a note published by the company from Nadella today, the CEO outlines how the changes will happen, with a total of 18,000 employees getting the axe over the course of the next year, with 12,500 of those coming out of the streamlining of Microsoft’s acquired Nokia assets.

Nadella says that 13,000 positions are already being actively downsized in the first wave, with a “vast majority” of those to be affected receiving notice over the next six months. More information will come from senior leaders to their teams later today, Nadella says in the note.

Nokia looks poised to take the big hit in this round of layoffs – Microsoft brought on around 25,000 of the Finnish company’s employees when it acquired the company’s devices and services division.

Full story: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/17/microsoft-to-cut-workforce-by-18000-this-year-moving-now-to-cut-first-13000/

-- TC 2014-07-18

[shirtless]

As they are now cutting staff, make them pay more tax, this should also apply to banks, its all about taking and giving the minimum in return.

[zaphod reborn]

PC sales down, the Surface is a failed product launch, Windows OS being squeezed out by competition, Windows Mobile OS a complete failure . . . no surprise here. I'm sure Microsoft will manage to run the Nokia brand, the world's #1 selling handset, into the ground.

[hugh2121]

Same old story. American company buys foreign company and closes down its home operation. time to boycott.

[NeverSure]

Good riddance (hopefully) to Microsoft too

Just as soon as someone comes out with something better for the enterprise environment. As long as Server with AD is the dominant domain controller in conjunction with exchange server and ISA server, employees and others in the enterprise will be using Windows.

Linux/Android, Unix and Mac won't work with Server. For instance Google uses Unix for its countless internet servers that we see, but they use Server and Windows in their office environments.

[NeverSure]

Same old story. American company buys foreign company and closes down its home operation. time to boycott.

Yes, boycott ALL American operating systems.

BTW, which American OS did you use to post that? Mac/Unix, Unix, Linux/Android, Windows...

Did you use the American invented and controlled internet? TCP/IP? A router? A modem?

Well?

Boycott all of them.

[Traveling Sailor]

PC sales down, the Surface is a failed product launch, Windows OS being squeezed out by competition, Windows Mobile OS a complete failure . . . no surprise here. I'm sure Microsoft will manage to run the Nokia brand, the world's #1 selling handset, into the ground.

All true. Nokia's first mistake was deciding to use Windows 8 as an operating system. Windows 8 is a piece of crap and the apps associated with it are no better. As a Nokia user, I am so sorry I purchased a Nokia. What a dumb "smart" phone. Mostly because of the operating system. Windows 8 on the PC is also crap. Maybe laying off 18,000 is not a bad idea. Bring in some folks that can come up with something better than Windows 8. An updated version of Windows XP would be wonderful.

[chuckd]

The following might make one wonder who Gates is more interested in...his own employees or immigrants.

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MICROSOFT TO SLASH 18,000 JOBS WEEK AFTER BILL GATES PUSHED FOR UNLIMITED GUEST-WORKER VISAS

by TONY LEE 17 Jul 2014

On Thursday, a week after former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates argued for amnesty and for an unlimited number of high-tech guest-worker visas, Microsoft announced it would slash 18,000 jobs.

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Bill Gates, along with Sheldon Adelson and Warren Buffett, advocated removing "the worldwide cap on the number of visas that could be awarded to legal immigrants who had earned a graduate degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics from an accredited institution of higher education in the United States."

However, numerous nonpartisan scholars and studies have determined that there is a surplus – not a shortage – of American high-tech workers. Moreover, after a recent Census report found that "74% of those with a bachelor's degree in these subjects don't work in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) jobs," the mainstream media may finally be catching on and taking away the high-tech industry's "free pass." CBS News, for instance, concluded that the Census data suggest the high-tech industry's contention that there is a shortage of American high-tech "is largely a myth."

More here: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/17/Microsoft-to-Slash-18-000-Jobs-Week-After-Bill-Gates-Pushed-for-Unlimited-Guest-Worker-Visas

Edited July 18, 2014 by chuckd

[Chicog]

PC sales down, the Surface is a failed product launch, Windows OS being squeezed out by competition, Windows Mobile OS a complete failure . . . no surprise here. I'm sure Microsoft will manage to run the Nokia brand, the world's #1 selling handset, into the ground.

I don't know where you've been but Nokia were already down the toilet when Microsoft gave them $1Bn to make Windows phones, well before they bought them out. Symbian was going nowhere, and they completely f-ed up Meego.

An updated version of Windows XP would be wonderful.

That's what Windows 7 is if you look under the hood. In fact there really hasn't been much that much innovation in Windows apart from the UI. Which is what makes it mostly backwards compatible.

Can you imagine if Microsoft did with Windows what they did with the Xbox One?

Edited July 18, 2014 by Chicog

[chrisinth]

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Same old story. American company buys foreign company and closes down its home operation. time to boycott.

Yes, boycott ALL American operating systems.

BTW, which American OS did you use to post that? Mac/Unix, Unix, Linux/Android, Windows...

Did you use the American invented and controlled internet? TCP/IP? A router? A modem?

Well?

Boycott all of them.

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[Chicog]

Same old story. American company buys foreign company and closes down its home operation. time to boycott.

The only reason Nokia is still alive is because Microsoft subsidised and then bought it.