computerworld.com - 1/22/2009
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January 22, 2009 (Computerworld) Microsoft cuts 5,000 jobs . That's the big news of the week. Not just because the layoffs will cut one in 20 of Microsoft 's 91,000 employees. Not only because it signals just how hard Microsoft has been hurt by the failure of Vista and by shifts in the way big ...
gamasutra.com - 1/23/2009
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gamasutra.com —
divider January 23, 2009 Report: Microsoft Makes Big
Cuts At Flight Sim Studio Report: Microsoft Makes Big
Cuts At Flight Sim Studio Redmond, Washington-based ACES Studio, the Microsoft-owned internal group behind the venerable Microsoft Flight ...
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Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio
blogs.zdnet.com - 1/22/2009
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blogs.zdnet.com —
January 22nd, 2009 Where are the Microsoft cuts
falling? Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 8:49 am
Categories: Windows client , Windows Live , Corporate strategy , Office , Zune , Xbox , Utility/cloud computing Tags: Steve Ballmer , Microsoft Corp. , Team ...
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Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about ...
venturebeat.com - 1/23/2009
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venturebeat.com —
Amid the news that Microsoft is laying off
5,000 people over the next 18 months, sources report
that the game division has taken its share of the beating. Gamasutra reports that the Flight Simulator studio , dubbed ACES, suffered big layoffs ...
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Microsoft’s game studios take a beating in layoffs
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Remember today's date: January 22, 2009. It may go down in business history as the day that it became clear that proprietary software had been broken by Linux and open-source software. First, Microsoft had its biggest layoffs in the company's history ...
Microsoft’s pain is only just beginning
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... imitation. Microsoft has lost ground (or never gained a footing) in search versus Google, music players versus Apple, Web browsers versus Firefox," Hayes writes. "Worse still, Microsoft has forgotten how to improve even those cash-cow products. Office 2007 is a mess for usability. Vista is a disaster in almost every way. Hayes writes, "And now, Microsoft has begun to hit bottom financially, too. It's not all the way down yet. There's a lot more pain to come." Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Karma is one seriously beautiful bitch. As we have always said, even as many ...
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