venturebeat.com - 1/25/2009
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We’ll see what kind of fallout results among the management team in the wake of the layoffs announced by Microsoft on Thursday.
Among the casualties is Chris Early, general manager of Games for Windows Live, the online gaming service for gamers who play on personal computers. The ...
gamasutra.com - 1/23/2009
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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
venturebeat.com - 1/23/2009
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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
jkontherun.com - 1/22/2009
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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 ...
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Microsoft to reduce staff by 5,000 because of netbooks
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... - Will attempt to track how stimulus dollars are spent. • Microsoft's Chris Early, head of Games for Windows Live, among the layoffs • ...
Layoffs Slice Into Microsoft's Gaming Operations
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... ) layoffs has cut across the company's various game-related divisions, and the first high-level casualty is Chris Early, GM of Games for Windows Live, according to VentureBeat. The online gaming service is the PC-based counterpart to Xbox Live; it lets players access their unique handle (or Gamertag), high scores and other stats, as well as find and communicate with other players. ...
Games For Windows Live Boss Sacked [Disturbance In The Workforce]
Kotaku —
... a professional one. The Games for Windows Live service has been met with little but disdain and/or apathy from consumers since launching, Microsoft's attempt at structuring a platform-wide online system seen as a futile attempt to shoehorn a console gaming experience onto the more traditionally open-ended PC. Still no word on just how wide these cuts affect the Games for Windows group, but if Early has been laid off, that doesn't exactly sound like a vote of confidence in the group. Microsoft’s Chris Early, head of Games for Windows Live, among the layoffs [VentureBeat] ...
Games for Windows Live boss among Microsoft layoffs
Joystiq —
Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, BusinessChris Early, general manager for Games for Windows Live, has been listed among the casualties of Microsoft's first sweeping round of layoffs. While Microsoft has yet to make a formal announcement, VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi reports that emails to Early have bounced, and surmises that "more well-known managers will exit now there are fewer people to manage." The former exec was first put in charge of GFWL in July 2007, and had been an evangelist for the platform since the early ...
The numbers game: reading beyond the headlines
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... increased (in volume, if not in importance) by the sheer number of blogs and “citizen journalists”. Microsoft of course plays a mean numbers game. The layoffs are a good example, for while MS certainly made a number of cost cutting moves, it also used the opportunity to ax well-loved but dead-end programs (Aces Studio) and re-align the Entertainment & Devices Division to prepare for the likes of Zune Mobile and Project Pink, even as far as to “lay off” one exec, to replace him with another a few days later. ...
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