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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 $7.6 billion of its Nokia acquisition.
Source: TechCrunch
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @08:45PM (2 children)
What ate M$'s lunch was mobile.
A new market where they didn't have a monopoly from Day 1 (via an "in" with a sole hardware vendor and subsequent volume pricing chicanery with whitebox vendors) is what destroyed Redmond's business model.
...and the fact that MICROS~1 sucks at developing software, in this case mobile software.
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(Score: 1) by toddestan on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:12AM (1 child)
The big problem is that no one is going to Microsoft seriously anymore in mobile. They've brought too many different, incompatible platforms to market, only to kill them off shortly thereafter. What fans they might have had have all been burned, some of them multiple times. They would have been better off sticking with what they had (even if it wasn't initially popular) and hoping it eventually gained traction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @08:11PM
no one is going to Microsoft seriously [any more] in mobile
Their adoption rates back in the days of WinCE[1] weren't too awesome either.
We should note that the development level of hardware and software at that time wasn't getting much play from consumers.
That wasn't ready for primetime.
It took iOS and Android and more affordable, more powerful hardware to get things going bigtime.
[1] Heh. Wince. What an apt name for a MICROS~1 product.
They've brought too many different, incompatible platforms to market
Yeah. With M$, incompatibility has been a big issue.
Calling their mobile junk "Windoze" then having it unable to run software that folks had already acquired for their desktop boxes was confusing and disappointing for those folks.
...and dropping product lines that folks have paid for and making the new stuff inoperable with the now-obsolete stuff does tend to put folks off of M$.
After that, MICROS~1's attempt to shoehorn their desktop codebase onto handheld things was really ham-fisted.
...then there was Tiles8, which tried to do the inverse and, in the process, pissed off all the desktop users.
Again, what M$ did effectively for 3 decades involved capitalizing on their old monopoly and legacy users' familiarity.
MICROS~1 has been unimpressive WRT development of -new- paradigms.
Now, Ubuntu was making impressive strides in the area of Convergence with their Ubuntu Touch addition to their codebase, but they recently dropped that.
That's a shame.
Being able to connect the same device (with all your data on it) to a keyboard and monitor and have the software adapt is a very cool idea.
An outfit picked up that effort but I've mentioned that I'm not impressed with them so far. [soylentnews.org]
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