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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Microsoft cutting up to 10,000 jobs?

kitler53 on 22 December 2008

...i dont' care if this makes me an ass.

horray!!



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megaman79 on 22 December 2008

Nintendo are so fukn lucky and smart for not branching out into other industries years ago. Seems like all that exposure is catching up to these guys.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Pete_Beast on 22 December 2008

Someone explain how the weakening dollar actually helps MS? Also, I thought MS wasn't affected by the recession?



NJ5 on 22 December 2008
Pete_Beast said:
Someone explain how the weakening dollar actually helps MS? Also, I thought MS wasn't affected by the recession?

Weakening dollar means other currencies are worth more in dollars. Since Microsoft very likely has more revenue than expenses abroad, this means their revenue should be increasing faster than their expenses.

Practically every company is getting negatively affected by the recession. With companies going bankrupt and downsizing, less PCs are needed and therefore less software purchases. Companies are also trying to save money, which will also mean delays or cancellations of XP->Vista upgrades, for example.

 



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Xen on 22 December 2008

When MS's gotta cut... and cut a lot... you know the economy is in dire straits...



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Pete_Beast on 22 December 2008

Oh, thanks alot NJ5.



Yojimbo on 22 December 2008
leo-j said:
Wow thats terrible, its like every company is suffering.

This.

 



 
Marty8370 on 22 December 2008

Just goes to show ya, MS ain't immume too the bad current market conditions either.



Comrade Tovya on 22 December 2008

Okay... so, where is the article that states this? Everyone is either celebrating or crying over an event that no one has even shown to be fact yet...



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WiiStation360 on 22 December 2008
Comrade Tovya said:
Okay... so, where is the article that states this? Everyone is either celebrating or crying over an event that no one has even shown to be fact yet...

It all started with rumors from the blog Mini-Microsoft. (everyone knows blog rumors are always true!)

The rumor has come from other sources as well.

The layoff bug about to hit Microsoft?

The software giant has thus far avoided the layoffs that some of its competitors have had to succumb to in the rough economic climate, but that’s about to change, according to the blog Mini-Microsoft. They’re hearing January 15 could be the day it goes down, and we have a seperate source hearing the same thing. On that day the bottom “10 percent-ers” (presumably, those performing the worst) could be gone — as many as 5,000 to 10,000 employees. Damn.