Comments on: Another Microsoft General Manager Quits the Company, Microsoft Refuses to Say Why

By: your_friend

your_friend — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:54:55 +0000

We shall see. Perhaps Microsoft is getting better at perception management through message containment. I don’t think Windows 7 has perked up the bottom line much. Like Vista, there will be a spurt of sales before people figure out that the system is user hostile and does not work. This time around, fewer people will take the bait so Windows 7 should sink faster than Vista did. Office sales won’t take up the slack either so, Microsoft revenues will be down more than they have cut expenses. They will lie about this but they can’t lie forever and all their other failures like Bing show there don’t have anything game changing. I expect more layoffs to reflect declining revenue.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:07:10 +0000

Maybe it’s an overstatement.

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:46:37 +0000

Well, in theory it could happen, but it really depends.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:22:27 +0000

They don’t quit, they metasticise. Dean Lester is still out there and will end up stinking up someone else’s yard. It’s just like other forms of gabarge. You can only just move it around from place to place unless you find a way to process it into something not garbage.

You get a very unusual type of person even considering working for M$. They’re not going to change their spots quickly, even if they want to.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:35:00 +0000

No, late January. But there’s no rumour about additional layoffs (you usually see prior warnings in mini-Microsoft comments from disgruntled employees).

As for Microsoft “need[ing] to be trimmed,” see what their former employee Niall Kennedy said after he had left — something along the lines of Microsoft being “oversized” and “paralyzed”.

Later he wrote this:

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2006/12/microsoft-linux-patents.html

By: Chips B. Malroy

Chips B. Malroy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:28:00 +0000

Quote: “Microsoft is shrinking.” (as well as stinking and dieing)

Yes, over 5,000 layoffs, 2,000 more gone by selling off parts of the company, and most likely another 5,000 or more contractor status employees gone as well. 12,000 still leaves room for Mini-M$ target of 20,000 to be “trimmed.” Then there is all the cuts and perks gone at MS for the worker Bee’s. Oddly Ballmer did not take a real cut, but then he is doing such a great job.

Think of the parallels of Vi$ta/Seven and Microsoft itself, both are bloated, slow, and without innovation. They need to be trimmed?

A lot depends on how good, or how bad this Xmas shopping season was for OEM’s. If bad, we will shortly see more layoffs at Redmond, maybe as soon as Jan. 4th, or around the time of the next quarter coming out for MS.