Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff

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famousringo said:

lanjiaona said:

The layoffs will take place a week before Microsoft's Q2 earnings report which takes place on the 22nd of January 2009 and it doesn't seem like the date set for the layoffs is coincidental. We'll bring you more on this subject as it unfolds. 

 

O RLY?

Have the twin cash cows of Windows and Office really dried up, or is this just some fashionable "cost-slashing before the recession actually bites us" like all the other firms are doing? Let's start the speculation!

I'll go with B.

 

I think a lot of companies (like the one I work for) are cutting back somewhat unnecisarrily.  Losses haven't happened yet, but I'm assuming that Analysts are predicting possible losses in the future and so they are acting now instead of later.

On one hand thats actually kind of smart and rather unAmerican (IMO the American way is don't bother me with a problem, come back when it's a catastrophie) plan of action for the company, but in the bigger picture of things its like amputating without getting Gane greene (Sp?) yet, and it's no way to help the economy on the whole and prospective buyers, to eliminate their paychecks.