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Microsoft plans to announce a major new round of layoffs as early as Wednesday, as the company seeks to further cut costs in a shifting technology landscape.
The layoffs are in addition to the about 18,000 employees that Microsoft said it planned to let go a year ago, according to people briefed on the plans, who asked for anonymity because the details were confidential. The new job cuts are expected to affect people in Microsoft's hardware group, among other parts of the company, including the struggling smartphone business that it acquired from Nokia last year in a $7.2 billion deal.
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In June, Microsoft said it was selling its online display advertising business to AOL, as the company exited a business for which it once had high hopes.Another area in which Microsoft is stumbling is smartphones, a market in which it has continued to lose market share since acquiring Nokia's handset business. Microsoft has so far failed to turn the Windows Phone operating system, which runs on its handsets, into a vibrant alternative to the two leading mobile platforms, iOS from Apple and Android from Google.
How do you read the tea leaves, Soylent? What does the future hold for Microsoft?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday July 08 2015, @05:02PM
The majority of the latest layoffs will be outside Microsoft’s home base in the Seattle area, including some in Finland, where Nokia originated.
My guess is 7800+18000=25800 fired in Seattle, and 50000 hired in India and / or H1B? I guess the only real questions are will they have to train their replacements to get their severance and will it be H1B or simple outsourcing?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:40AM
Wherever the new jobs are created they'll already know that the new pronunciation of "Nokia" is "No-work-ia"