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posted by n1 on Wednesday July 05 2017, @11:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the good-luck-in-your-future-endeavors dept.

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A source with knowledge of the planned downsizing told TechCrunch that [Microsoft] would lay off "thousands" of staff across the world. The restructuring is set to include an organizational merger that involves its enterprise customer unit and one or more of its SME-focused divisions. The changes are set to be announced this coming week, we understand.

Microsoft declined to comment.

[...] Bloomberg said the redundancies would be "some of the most significant in the sales force in years."

[...] Last year, Microsoft announced that it would cut 2,850 jobs — including at least 900 from its sales group, according to The Seattle Times — having two months earlier said it would let go of 1,850 staff related to its smartphone business. In July 2015, it made 7,800 job cuts and wrote down $7.6 billion of its Nokia acquisition.

Source: TechCrunch


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:48PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:48PM (#535205)

    Considering that chrome installs it's own system service I wouldn't be too sure about that.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @03:52PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @03:52PM (#535230)

    how to spot a windows user...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:59PM (#535270)

      How to spot a freetard.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:27PM (#535367)

      There's only one on SoylentNews, really.

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday July 05 2017, @05:46PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday July 05 2017, @05:46PM (#535292)

    Use an alternate browser, a NoScript+UBlock equivalent, and suddenly you're a lot less exposed to G/MS/FB.

    I am delighted to report that FB believes I'm black, as they try to make me sign up to their spying. That's a better result than I expected.