Microsoft Exec Opens Up About Research Lab Closure, Layoffs

alphadogg writes It's been a bit over a month since Microsoft shuttered its Microsoft Research lab in Silicon Valley as part of the company's broader restructuring that will include 18,000 layoffs. This week, Harry Shum, Microsoft EVP of Technology & Research, posted what he termed an "open letter to the academic research community" on the company's research blog. In the post, Shum is suitably contrite about the painful job cut decisions that were made in closing the lab, which opened in 2001. He also stresses that Microsoft will continue to invest in and value "fundamental research".

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well of-course they are firing

[roman_mir]

Of-course MS is firing American workers, why is it a surprise? The surprising part is that they are not doing it faster and bigger, but I guess everything in its time. There will be more cuts and then more and eventually MS will transition its operations to Asia out of the West, where the productive Asians can actually afford to purchase their products, while the Americans can purchase less and less, made unproductive by their socialist/fascist state and ideology.