Microsoft announces 18,000 layoffs
Nokia devices hardest hit
Confirming earlier reports, Microsoft announced large-scale layoffs today.
In a letter to employees published on the company site, new CEO Satya Nadella said the company will be reducing its workforce by up to 18,000 jobs over the next year. Its Nokia Devices and Services division will be the hardest hit, accounting for approximately 12,500 of the losses. The company will be reducing the first 13,000 company-wide over the next six months. The Nokia teams will be folded into Microsoft proper for work on Windows devices.
Earlier reports stated that Xbox marketing and engineering divisions could be impacted, but Nadella's letter didn't explicitly mention those. The layoffs are large enough to include an impact, however.
"The overall result of these changes will be more productive, impactful teams across Microsoft," Nadella wrote. "These changes will affect both the Microsoft workforce and our vendor staff. Each organization is starting at different points and moving at different paces."
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damn. Should I have got a PS4 instead?
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Nokia was already heading in this direction before Microsoft acquiring them. The acquisition was always seen as an expensive way to get into phone hardware. Microsoft was somewhat forced to make the acquisition since Google had Motorola and really there weren't too many Windows Phone hardware vendors to choose from.
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Nokia had a bunch of patents that they wanted.
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Nokia going bye bye
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Considering most of theses are in europe, I'm not sure this means what you think it means.
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Uncle Sugar? WTH?
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hahaha.. funny.
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You in this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb62fpsyhC4-
Damnit, I watched that and couldn't help but cringe at the ignorant inbreds.
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Man that's terrible. I had a cousin working for them, hope he wasnt axed
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.css you still got a job bro?
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Damn. That is a lot of jobless people in my industry in my area. I feel for them, I was in the same boat last year when Microsoft didn't renew my company's contract.
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This is not the death of Nokia Windows phones.
Microsoft bought a company that was overstaffed and has many employees in technology and design areas that are duplicated in other areas of their hardware division. This has given them the opportunity to trial a large number of staff then keep the ones that are most productive and innovative and remove the rest of the deadwood.
This should make Nokia a stronger more focussed company producing better hardware than ever.
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If I had to guess, MS is probably steering in a totally different direction. They are probably abandoning ship on their mobile platform once again.
Microsoft is a very reactionary company. They are wonderful at receiving all messages about what's wrong with a current product and fixing it completely later down the line or upon the next product release. Currently the problems and complaints are all centered around Windows 8 and the Metro components present in PC's, phones, and their Surface Tablets. Come Windows 9, I wouldn't doubt the App store will either be something completely different or gone entirely. If I had to guess, they probably have something in mind that is better suited for PC's and serviceable on their tablet. This means probably abandoning phones.-
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Not true. Full abandonment can be a proper and correct step towards improving the bigger picture product. I even think that abandoning windows phone and mobile will improve Windows OS and Windows Surface tablets.
Regarding abandoning phones, everyone should have seen this coming when MS Office was released on Ios.
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Wow. Just wow.
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Probably going to outsource the Nokia stuff the way they do with all their hardware.
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That whole Nokia gambit paid off well for them. Looks like the paranoid were right.
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