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Microsoft To Lay Off 700 Employees Next Week, Report Says (geekwire.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the heads-up dept.

According to a report by Business Insider (Warning: may be paywalled), Microsoft will cut about 700 jobs in conjunction with its quarterly earnings release next week. GeekWire reports: The latest layoffs are part of the company's previously announced plan to cut about 2,850 roles globally during its current fiscal year, according to the Business Insider report. The company declined to comment this afternoon, but we understand the report to be accurate, based on our own sources. Next week's cuts will be spread across a variety of job functions inside the company. The company's previous job cuts have come in areas including its smartphone business and global sales team. Microsoft announced its largest cuts in July 2014, eliminating 18,000 jobs, or 14 percent of the company at the time.

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  1. Microsoft's effective negative advertising by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft top managers decided to try to force everyone who isn't technically knowledgeable to move to the Windows 10 operating system so that Microsoft could offer "Apps", like the Android and Apple cell phone systems.

    Microsoft ignored the fact that trying to sell "Apps" when people have work to do on their computers is not appropriate.

    Windows 10 tries to force Microsoft's control, imitating the cell phone companies that, more and more, take control away from the customer and user.

    That acted as extremely effective negative advertising. Almost every technically knowledgeable person is now aware of what they consider extreme abuse.

    In my opinion, the negative advertising damages Microsoft and indicates that Microsoft top managers are not competent.

    1. Re:Microsoft's effective negative advertising by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Microsoft ignored the fact that trying to sell "Apps" when people have work to do on their computers is not appropriate.

      The funny thing is that after all the abuse that you still don't realize that you don't own Windows, it's owns you and it always has. Only lately have they have chosen to blatantly exert their will.

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    2. Re:Microsoft's effective negative advertising by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "Almost every person who has used Win 10 for any length of time is now aware of what they consider extreme abuse."....FTFY.

      I thought I got a lot of work wiping Win 8 for 7 but damned people HATE Windows 10 and for good reason, all it takes is MSFT forcing a shit driver that locks the PC into endless rebooot or having it just decide to install updates and shut down in the middle of them actually doing something for people to say "fuck this POS!" and demand any other Windows than 10. I've even had people bring by brand new in box Win 10 lappys just to have me wipe the thing before its ever even turned on, its gotten THAT bad a rep.

      If they thought they had a shitload still running XP at its EOL I have a feeling when Win 7 hits EOL the numbers running 7/8/8.1 will still be crazy high.

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  2. Probably less than 10% don't use Windows. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, if we can trust Slashdot's recent reporting then about 6% run OS X or macOS, and a measly 2% run Linux. Of course, they're both totally irrelevant compared to Windows 10 with 24%, Windows 7 with 48%, Windows 8.1 with 7%, and Windows XP with 9%.

    So probably less than 10% of PCs don't run Windows, which obviously means about 90% or more do.

    I don't know where the hell this ClaraBow is coming from, and why that awful comment got modded up. It's not "hyperbole" or a "straight-out lie" to say that nearly every PC uses Windows, when it turns out that 90% or more do.

    Speaking of hyperbole, the only hyperbole I see are statements like "There are a lot of PCs that don't run on Windows.", and "Chrome Os is making a huge dent", and "MS Office isn't as important and prevalent as they used to be.", and "they [Microsoft] are not as influential on the PC market as they used to be.".

  3. Re:Windows 10 downgrade by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nah - every time they boot employees the stock goes up - it's been that way in corporate America for a couple of decades now. Maybe they should bring back Balmer so they can fire him again and send it TO TEH MOONZ!"

    After all, employees are now seen as a cost center, not an asset. "You will continue to be beaten until morale improves" was supposed to be satire.

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  4. I have a better solution.... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They need to lay off 700 executives.

    Saves more money and fixes a big problem with Microsoft... They are top heavy as hell

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