News - Microsoft to cut 5,000 jobs

[HEXUS]

As the software giant's quarterly revenue falls slightly below expectations, cost savings are announced.

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[GheeTsar]

Unless there's a lot of deadwood in Microsoft, I'm not sure this bodes well for Windows 7 development. By all accounts it sounds like they need this one to be a winner to get back on track. Mind you, $4billion in profit can't be all bad...

[moogle]

Shouldn't this read Intel?

[finlay666]

This is great..... Hexus has the news article on here 10 minutes before I get an email about it telling me!

[dangel]

Unless there's a lot of deadwood in Microsoft, I'm not sure this bodes well for Windows 7 development. By all accounts it sounds like they need this one to be a winner to get back on track. Mind you, $4billion in profit can't be all bad...

It's more about economic downturn reducing expected profits - the result is your shareholders force you to make cuts to show you're 'responding' to only making an ungodly sum of money versus an obscenely ungodly sum of money.

I very much doubt Win7 will be affected at all - it's more likely they'll trim peripheral staff (e.g. admin) than people working on the core product.


Headcount at MS:

Worldwide
94,286

USA
56,654

Puget Sound (Washington State)
40,797

Functional Breakout (Worldwide):

Business Group
48,552

Sales & Marketing Support Group
35,567

Operations Group
10,166