Microsoft has confirmed that it will be cutting 800 jobs effective today. The jobs will be cut across many different product groups and about a quarter of them will come from the Seattle area. The final 800 cuts complete the announcement in January that the company would terminate 5000 employees over the following 18 months. Employees who are affected will be notified today.
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had said in May that the company was almost, but not quite completely, finished with the planned 5,000 job cuts at that point. Microsoft has continued to hire in some areas even as it has cut back in others, reducing the net effect of the job reductions."
As the ugly side of the economy continues to show its head, we can only hope that the company will right itself and not need to reduce its work staff in the future.
They're making a huge deal of money now with Windows 7, and they still fire thousands of people.
Ballmer should be shot in the head for this.
Having been through redundancy a few times, I know it's nothing personal and a business practice that is necessary
Meaning it's not necessarily a sign that the company's still doing bad, just not good enough to go back on the cuts they said they'd make almost a year ago.
Title could use some clarification than
yeah really ... for such a big company this is not good news =\
To lose or be able to cut that many jobs is definitely a sign that they had way to many employees (chiefs), to begin with!
Still sad to hear about anyone losing their jobs now a days.
You've obviously never been made redundant before.
Maybe he's a CEO.
One of the things that helped win7 was that they cut back on the middle men and reworked the different devisions.
Besides these aren't new, they're the last line of old job cuts from back in Jan. It also doesn't state in which specific areas they worked on. If some part needs 4 workers but you have 8 and it doesn't seem to be helping, it only makes sense that you either move the extra ones to something else or cut them loose. That's just how it goes.
Microsoft is not just about Windows. Also, you need to think that a company can grow too big as well. Cutting back could be a good thing for Microsoft, but obviously not for the employees and no doubt that Microsoft has a very good reason for doing this.
Microsoft is not just about Windows.
Windows/Server/Office is MS's primary source of revenue by far. MS took a big hit from Vista's failure.
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/fy1...10.mspx#Channel
Microsoft is not just about Windows.
Windows/Server/Office is MS's primary source of revenue by far. MS took a big hit from Vista's failure.
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/fy1...10.mspx#Channel
I'm sorry but did you actually read your own link? Segment revenue and operating income/loss clearly show Windows as one of their lowest earners (and second highest losses). If you are trying to use the 2008 versus 2009 totals as evidence that Vista had a huge impact on Microsoft then you are sorely mistaken and need to go back to ACCY101--the reduction in 2009 revenue is across the board and not just in the Windows segments indicating additional causality; i.e. the global economic crisis.
The fall in Windows revenue in 2009 versus 2008 is furthered by the anticipation of Windows 7 causing a freeze on the OS market while consumers wait.
Microsoft is not just about Windows.
Windows/Server/Office is MS's primary source of revenue by far. MS took a big hit from Vista's failure.
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/fy1...10.mspx#Channel
I'm sorry but did you actually read your own link? Segment revenue and operating income/loss clearly show Windows as one of their lowest earners (and second highest losses). If you are trying to use the 2008 versus 2009 totals as evidence that Vista had a huge impact on Microsoft then you are sorely mistaken and need to go back to ACCY101--the reduction in 2009 revenue is across the board and not just in the Windows segments indicating additional causality; i.e. the global economic crisis.
The fall in Windows revenue in 2009 versus 2008 is furthered by the anticipation of Windows 7 causing a freeze on the OS market while consumers wait.
That's pretty much it. Though, from what I have been told, Microsoft's Office for Mac makes more then Office for Windows as it is almost always sold at full RRP versus the abundance of discounts offered on Windows versions of Office.
and hello indian outsorcing.
:-/
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