Microsoft Cuts 5,000 Staff, More Likely to Come
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-05-05 16:51:25 UTC
- Modified: 2009-05-05 18:22:20 UTC
Summary: Overview of the coverage regarding Microsoft's latest round of layoffs
WE WROTE about this yesterday and it turns out to be true. The company which relentlessly attacks GNU/Linux and also suppresses Freedom is down for the count (again).
Cringely
said 50,000, but Microsoft may make it another 5,000 -- for now.
UK coverage:
More details will come soon. It will also be realised which products/services/divisions get reduced or altogether axed.
The company's shares are down today. Well, obviously they are. The company's
earnings are down 32% and GNU/Linux is partly responsible.
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"[If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?] Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have to go with that."
--Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's CEO), February 28th, 2008
Comments
Gentoo User
2009-05-05 17:51:37
I'm sorry if my Reuters ref is not "credible", but I'm sure at least one of those links you posted there says the same thing. If not, you can always just deliberately misquote them like you did last week.
So they had already said they were letting 5K people go. But here you say:
Emphasis mine.
Is there a particular reason you employ the same tactics you accuse your real and imagined enemies of using against you?
Dan O'Brian
2009-05-05 23:02:26
Seriously, learn to comprehend basic english.