All the people producing DVD’s for Windows, boxing and shrinkwrapping them for retail and the Encarta staff will be missed.
While it stinks to lose your job but Microsoft doesn’t owe them a job. Especially when the position is done elsewhere in the company.
I’ve heard from current MS employees that the layoffs are restructuring following the Nokia acquisition. Not unusual following an acquisition, but given the size of the companies involved makes for a large number.
Typical lib. The EU has attempted to torpedo Microsoft for years thru their stupid enforced "browser choice" silliness, etc. Now Microsoft is laying of employees in a weakened economy and the EU is whining. It takes a Lib to be so totally disconnected from the reality of cause and effect.
There's a whole line if investigation in these conflicting actions...
That clearly marks their intention to layoff Americans and hire foreigners.
“”Politicians on both sides of the pond are not impressed. EU High Commissioner Laszlo Andor, “I deeply regret the significant job losses announced by Microsoft today because of the impact these will have on so many individuals, their families and the local communities they live and work in” and US Senator Jeff Sessions is irked that MSFT is firing thousands of staff yet continues to press for relaxed Visa rules:
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Shouldnt these retards socialists be merely grateful that MS is a business giving people jobs? What is it with these governmentoids who believe in their brokering jobs for people?
What a fraud.
I recently tried to help a friend who was struggling to get Windows 8.1 to recognize the printer. Nothing intuitive about it. I have yet to meet a Windows 8.1 owner who liked it. Thank goodness, I found Linux four years ago.