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____/ Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 22 January 2009 21:41 : \____
> "The software maker is trimming costs for travel, freezing wages, scaling
> back a massive expansion to its Redmond campus and looking to cut what it
> spends on contractors and vendors by up to 15 percent."
>
> http://www.mercurynews.com/newsspecialreports/ci_11526413?nclick_check=1
Update:
"Just how many contractors who work for Microsoft will lose their jobs?
Microsoft will not comment. But the tally is probably close to if not more
than 5,000."
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/160115.asp?source=rss
That makes a total that may exceed 10,000 people who lost their job at/for
Microsoft, so it aligns with some early estimates.
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