Microsoft To Lay Off Another 800 Workers

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting 800 more jobs. That's in addition to the 5,000 layoffs it announced in January.

Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, said Wednesday the cuts are being made in offices around the globe. He would not say what specific product groups or job types are affected.

Gellos also says Microsoft had already let nearly all of the 5,000 go, in what was the company's first-ever widespread layoffs.

Microsoft also said in January it would continue to hire in key areas such as Web search. The software maker, based in Redmond, Wash., employed about 94,000 people as of the end of December 2008. At the end of September, about 91,000 people worked for Microsoft, indicating the company has added 2,000 jobs this year.

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But Obama said... 11/4/2009 4:33:00 PM Maybe Obama can be impeached for not upholding the COTUS (subverting the constitution). At least yesterday's election sent these Marxists a strong message.
But Obama said... 11/4/2009 4:54:00 PM If only it could be true. But, I think it will take something much stronger than that to get their attention. Dnile is not just a river in Egypt. This arrogance runs far too deep for yesterday to actually affect them, I'm afraid.
Re: "Obama..." 11/4/2009 5:06:00 PM Try as I might, I cannot find one mention of the President or any political party in this short article. WTF are you smoking today??
Bloated software company 11/4/2009 5:22:00 PM Microsoft has one of the lowest productivity rates, and they are jobs that could be easily sent overseas. I wonder who they voted for.
But Obama said... 11/4/2009 6:34:00 PM Yes they are incredibly arrogant, but yesterday was just a start. Tomorrow there is a march on the House organized by Michelle Backman, R- MN which will help. We also need to do in 2010 the same that was done yesterday, but in hundreds of races.
Imitation may be Flatulence 11/4/2009 6:42:00 PM I was invited by a very energetic MS employee to attend their new MS Store opening in Mission Viejo, CA. I asked what would make a MS store different from an Apple store except for the obvious. Her answer: "take a great concept and make it yours is our approach to our stores." Yawn. Hasn't that been Microsoft's approach to EVERYTHING? Take someone else's idea and make it theirs? With all the resources and talent, why not try the Monty Python approach? Now for something completely different! Don't be stupid but take some risk, break new ground for a change. It CAN be done. It can. It can!
Microsoft To Lay Off Another 800 Workers 11/5/2009 7:30:00 AM BHO and his crew claim things are getting better but I don't see it..... all I see is more layoffs, no change, no hope.
the ultimate 11/5/2009 11:11:00 AM Because Windows7 is the ultimate OS, Microsoft no longer needs programmers. And, since Windows7 has been thoughly tested tech support is not needed. Once every computer in the world comes preinstalled with Windows7, a sales department won’t be needed either. The only one’s left is the execs crushing the competition and racking it in.
Were they US or foreign workers? 11/5/2009 11:14:00 AM This was a global lay off. BHO didn't say he would protect foreign jobs. Don't comment if you don't have all the information. Many who are screaming about these layoffs also wanted every single GM, Chrysler and their suppliers workers to be laid off. BHO didn't start this mess but you would think he did by the comment here.
I guess this means much 11/5/2009 1:49:00 PM longer waits for the Windows 7 help lines.
lay-offs 11/11/2009 12:59:00 PM It's funny how stupidly GOP people comment here - the lay-offs at Microsoft have nothing to do with the reaction or better non-reaction to the economy from the current adminstration, but the stone heads from GOP shout Marxism (for sure none of them even has a book of Karl in his hands nor ever opened, one God forbid!) and support laughable paper weights in Congress as M.Bachmann. Anybody who wants to keep corporate dominance of policy making, well continue to support Republicans (or Democrats that does not matter much) but your future will not get better with steady support of the proven disaster voodoo economics a la Reagan, Bush & Clinton &C o ... real change comes when Corporate gets a run for the money ... but this will probably never happen in reactionary USA!

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