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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOops, there goes the economy, Microsoft will layoff 18000.
It's the economy stupid!
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Oops, there goes the economy, Microsoft will layoff 18000. (Original Post)
CK_John
Jul 2014
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Agschmid
(28,749 posts)1. Wow.
Link? Thanks.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)3. what will this do to seatthe? nt
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)5. Free up parking for the upper classes n/t
CK_John
(10,005 posts)6. The tech bubble has burst, who knows?
freeplessinseattle
(3,508 posts)10. guess we'll find out. n/t
intaglio
(8,170 posts)4. As long as they lay off all those "Windows Technical Department" operatives
who, calling from India, claim their name is Robert (or Ian of Michael or Sylvia ...) I'll be happy
Obvious is obvious
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)7. Most of those job cuts are outside of the U.S.
Finland seems to be getting the hardest hit.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)8. Global layoffs, not exclusive to the US.
1) XBox One sales were nowhere near what they projected.
2) Windows 8 was a debacle, though it is showing some life more recently.
3) Adoption of cloud based technologies presented by Microsoft are not growing as fast as expected.
4) Redundancies in the Nokia buyout is driving the biggest portion of this.
Anybody paying attention knew this was coming.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)9. Nokia is getting the axe
Because endless corporate mergers always benefit the economy.