05.05.09
Microsoft Cuts 5,000 Staff, More Likely to Come
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.
- Microsoft starts second round of layoffs. More to come?
- Report: Microsoft Won’t Rule Out More Layoffs
- Microsoft Announces Second Wave In 5,000 Job Cuts Plan
- Microsoft moves forward on plan to lay off 5,000
- Microsoft completes staff cuts faster than planned
- Microsoft Announces Another Round of Job Cuts
- Microsoft cuts thousands more jobs
- More layoffs at Microsoft today, says company e-mail from Steve Ballmer
- Microsoft Enters Phase 2 with Plan to Cut 5,000 Jobs
- Microsoft cut more jobs in their operations
- Microsoft starts next job cuts, hints at more
- Microsoft Announces Round Two of Layoffs
- More pink slips go out at Microsoft
- Fargo’s Microsoft begins second round of job cuts this year
- Microsoft layoff buzz intensifies
UK coverage:
- Microsoft confirms 5 per cent of UK jobs to go
- Microsoft to cut 150 jobs in UK
- Microsoft carries out second round of planned job cuts
- Ballmer email kicks off second round of Microsoft layoffs
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. █
“[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
Gentoo User said,
May 5, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Haha, and you accuse Microsoft of FUD? Your wording makes it look like Microsoft is laying off more people, when in reality they are completing their overall layoff plans, which were announced in January.
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 said,
May 5, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Heh, I was just about to point out the same thing. Microsoft said back in January that they planned on laying off 5,000 people over the course of 18 months. This means that they won’t be finished laying off those originally stated 5,000 until June 2010.
Seriously, learn to comprehend basic english.