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Re: [News] Microsoft Lays Off Hundreds of Employees

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft Lays Off Hundreds of Employees
  • From: Nigel Feltham <nigel.feltham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:03:00 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <1165395.IjrL33YEZb@schestowitz.com>
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  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1124676
Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Microsoft Lays Off 214 in U.S. Sales
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In 2004, Microsoft laid off 76 people in the Xbox unit. In 2003, the
> | company cut more than 150 Microsoft Consulting Services employees from
> | the payroll.
> |
> | [...]
> | 
> | Posters on the Mini-Microsoft site had their own theories.
> | 
> | "RIFs in this company do not and will not happen company wide," said
> | one anonymous poster on Mini-Microsoft. "They will happen on a group by
> | group basis. For those of you in underperforming groups that are
> | incapable of shipping a decent product, be worried. For those of you in
> | bloated groups that actually ship, you're probably safe. For those of
> | you in lean, mean groups that ship products regularly and frequently, I
> | would love to work for Google too :-)."
> `----

If MS closed every department incapable of shipping a decent product there
wouldn't be a lot left.

Maybe the job cutting is in preparation for the EU fines coming up - they
have to keep their profit levels somehow.

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