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MobileBurn.com - 1/22/2009
Microsoft boasts 20 million WM smartphones in 2008, announces 5,000 job cuts
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Today Microsoft announced its performance figures for its latest fiscal quarter, Q2 2009. The company claims that it has moved 20 million Windows Mobile smartphones in the prior 12 months, and has announced 5,000 layoffs. Read the full story here.
Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio
gamasutra.com - 1/23/2009
Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio
— 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 ... (more) Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio

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Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about Microsoft
blogs.zdnet.com - 1/22/2009
Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about Microsoft
— 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 ... (more) Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about ...

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Microsoft to reduce staff by 5,000 because of netbooks
jkontherun.com - 1/22/2009
Microsoft to reduce staff by 5,000 because of netbooks
— jkontherun.com — We have been warning everyone for months that the mass appeal of low-cost netbooks was going to... hit the major players hard. You’ve probably heard today that Microsoft plans to lay off 5,000 employees over the next 18 months due to the hard ... (more) Microsoft to reduce staff by 5,000 because of netbooks

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Who's The Champ? Apple, Microsoft, Nokia Report Smartphone Sales
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Topics: Mobile Who's The Champ? Apple, Microsoft, Nokia Report Smartphone Sales Posted by Eric Zeman , Jan 22, 2009 04:09 PM [image] Apple disclosed sales figures of the iPhone for the holiday quarter. The total amounts to 4.4 million iPhones sold. That's a huge increase over the year-ago quarter, but down significantly from the 6.9 million 3G iPhones sold during the previous quarter. At the same time, Microsoft says 2008 saw 20 million Windows Mobile smartphones sold. Nokia sold 113 million phones, but how many of them were "smart"? According to Apple's first quarter results (which spanned the holiday ...

20 Million Windows Mobile Phones Sold By Microsoft
High Tech Lounge — 20 Million Windows Mobile Phones Sold By Microsoft 20 Million Windows Mobile Phones Sold By Microsoft If you are holding any shares in Microsoft, the performance figures released today are going to be a bit of a mixed bag for you. There’s some good news in there, to be sure, but some bad news too. Let’s start with the good news. Microsoft says that it has sold over 20 million Windows Mobile smartphones over the course of 2008, including eleven handsets that sold more than one million units each. That’s pretty impressive. Looking at the quarter that ended on December 31, 2008, Microsoft says it posted total revenue of $16.63 billion, ...

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Who's The Champ? Apple, Microsoft, Nokia Report Smartphone Sales — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Apple disclosed sales figures of the iPhone for the holiday quarter. The total amounts to 4.4 million iPhones sold. That's a huge increase over the year-ago quarter, but down significantly from the 6.9 million 3G iPhones sold during the previous ...