Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft for Job Cuts,' Broken Promises'

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Johnw1104 said:

GoOnKid said:

I think they have all the rights to be fussed since Nokia is one of the best known finnish companies. For decades it made sure that lots of finnish employees had jobs and paid taxes. Now that MS decides to cut a big amount of them, it's the governments job to make up for that with no compensation whatsoever. They must clean up the mess that a stupid MS decision generated.

They have the right to be concerned or disappointed, but not nonplussed at what Microsoft has done here. Again, this isn't a charity. Microsoft decided to cut them because that venture (Nokia) has been failing, and Microsoft was losing money. To continue on funding that would be to subsidize a failed venture, and they'd have to make their cuts elsewhere in areas where they're seeing more success to compensate. It is precisely the opposite of a "stupid" decision; it was a necessary and practical one.

Microsoft doesn't owe Finland its tax money; to the contrary, if it meant so much to Finland they should have done more to keep Microsoft invested there. Whining like a bunch of children over it will not reflect well on them when trying to attract other big investors in the future.

Don't get me wrong, I should have clarified myself. The stupid decision was not the recent job cut, but the venture itself. Nokia wasn't in a good shape back then, sure, but it went completely downhill from that point onward and this evolution was somehow predictable. The worst decision in my oppinion is the killing of the Nokia brand. While I don't have any significant data, I believe that the Nokia brand name had been pretty strong.

Of course it's not charity, we all know that, but MS shouldn't even have entered the mobile market in the first place.