Microsoft cutting up to 10,000 jobs?

[Comrade Tovya]

heruamon said:
I'll believe it when I see it...M$ hasn't missed any numbers, or seen any downturn in revenue estimates, but it's on out of the realm of possibility for them to launch a pre-emptive cut...my question would be where. From the last report, there were no reported lagging divisions to justify a 10,000 person cut, for a company with 91,00 employees...slicing over 10% of your workforce, when you've not missed any quarterly profit targets, and you're in a battle to retain good people against google would be huge. The morale hit alone would be titanic, but stranger things have happened.

 

MS won't cut 10,000 people.  I think they will cut the fat, but MS would do that anyway because they know how to run a sound business.

A few thousand at most will be cut... and nothing more.  MS has way too much money in cash reserves to be worried.  They'll just play the smart role and get rid of the excess that's not needed (which I believe they would have done anyway).