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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday July 08 2015, @04:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-the-mighty-have-fallen dept.

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: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday July 08 2015, @06:21PM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Wednesday July 08 2015, @06:21PM (#206555)

    good article links. the linked-in one is interesting since it has some interaction with ubuntu guys.

    we know ubuntu has sold out. mint got started from that (plus many others). why anyone would trust an ubuntu phone, I'm not sure. its not compelling enough to jump to and you have many of the same problems the other big guys have.

    once the marketing and money guys get into something, they completely ruin it. phones were the next thing they all flocked to, to ruin, after they ruined the internet. previously, they ruined tv (it always had ads, but it got worse over time and has not trended downward, not ever). even education (college) was ruined by the moneyed interests (the textbook 'factories', included).

    as I said, I don't expect it to fix itself. at best, I can try to put up with the crap that's out there and try to keep it at its minimum. just like the noise level on the unwashed web; without noscript and blockers, its more noise than signal, at this point.

    really a shame that mankind seeks to ruin things like it does. some of us are out there trying to create a better place, while most of the rest are happy 'just to watch the world burn'.

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