blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com - 1/22/2009
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With the prospect of a significant job cut at Microsoft looming Thursday, we took a moment to review the occasions over the past decade or so when the company has trimmed jobs through reorganizations and other changes. While sifting through these numbers, remember that during the same period -- ...
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
kara.allthingsd.com - 1/22/2009
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kara.allthingsd.com —
Here is the full memo to employees from
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured here) about the 5,000...
layoffs and other cost cuts just announced, due to economic slowdown, which also resulted in weak financial results for the second quarter . It ...
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Steve Ballmer’s Entire Memo to the Microsoft Troops ...
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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Microsoft Layoffs 2009: 5,000 Jobs Cut
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... revenue of $16.63 billion for the second quarter, up 2 percent from the same period last year. Client revenue, however, was down 8 percent — a drop blamed on “PC market weakness and a continued shift to lower priced netbooks.” Some analysts tied the statement directly to the struggle of the Vista operating system.
You can see the full report of the Microsoft results here. The Seattle Times also provides some good perspective with a look at past Microsoft job cuts dating back to 1996. ...
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I4U News 1/22/2009
As part of today's Q2 earnings report Microsoft announced the already rumored lay-off. Microsoft will eliminate up to 5,000 jobs in R&D, marketing, sales, finance, legal, HR, and IT over the next 18 months, including 1,400 jobs today.
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