Posted on 07/17/2014 3:36:19 AM PDT by Innovative
The action will be much bigger than the 5,800 job cuts announced in 2009, The New York Times said.
Microsoft reportedly will announce the biggest round of layoffs in its history on Thursday as massive changes wrought by new CEO Satya Nadella start to take hold at the struggling IT giant.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
The economy might be to blame, but bureaucratic bloat is likely the primary culprit.
NY Times article referenced:
Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft
Cut 6000 jobs, I bet someone’s getting a huge bonus.
How many Americans to go and how many Indians?
In other news of today: “Zero auto mechanics laid off in American workforce!”
The only secure jobs are those that are “hands on” technical trades. Clicking on keyboards and performing “heavy thinking” are jobs in which the employees are a “dime a dozen” and can easily be laid off or replaced by cheaper employees.
No one realizes their real worth to an employer until they are either laid off or replaced with someone cheaper.
I’ve always had a belief that if you learn a trade, nurture it and keep abreast of changes, it will take care of you for the rest of your life.
“much bigger than the 5,800 job cuts announced in 2009”
It will be many more than 6000 jobs cut.
Obviously Bush’s fault. Obama inherited these layoffs.
MS' failed attempt to market Windows 8 for the "B C N U TONITE!!! ZOMG!!" airhead generation shows they recognize this, but so far have not been able to do anything about it.
Where I work, we last updated our Windows products in 2004. It will be at least another 3-4 years before we do so again.
Just about everyone who needs an office suite now has one which is quite adequate for their needs.
These numbers will be exaggerated because most of these will be from the Nokia acquisition.
Judging by those dates your systems are seriously out of date and wide open to hackers and malware.
Not something to be proud of.
Hopefully you don’t deal with any kind of sensitive customer data.
If you haven’t updated your system in 10 years you’re running XP client and server 2003 (not even r2 release). Hard to believe. But good luck with that.
Could not agree with you more. I recently completed the construction of a new house. All of the tradesmen (framing, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc.) were all small, locally owned companies.
My GC told me that the respective owners of each company employed anywhere from 15-30 people and each owner was worth more than a million bucks.
The HVAC guy was around 50 and had two daughters....the daughters were the ones that did all my duct work and hooked up the units.
“Where I work, we last updated our Windows products in 2004. It will be at least another 3-4 years before we do so again.”
Server 2003 and XP SP3 is a great stable platform. However, it requires several 3rd party products to protect it. IPS, IDS, firewall, HBSS and a robust set of GPOs at a minimum. But it will work and saves money versus continual upgrading and VMware licensing.
I recommend eventually migrating to Server 2012, Exchange 2013 and Windows 9 clients in a Windows Hyper-V full virtual environment using zero client workstations (LAN-permitting). This will save your company the most in licensing and hardware costs and also electricity. These savings can be substantial and should be able to pay off the cost of the upgrade in a few years.
which is the missing thought in todays progressive atmosphere.
I have a flip phone ... what? .. milk and eggs ? ... OK, I love you
it's a frikkin' PHONE ... not a strain your eyes computer.
There always HAD to be a point when 'the kids are so much smarter today than when I was a kid' .. came to an end.
blue collar, here
Heard at a GOPe Rally Yesterday:
WHAT DO WE WANT?
MORE H1B Visas!
WHEN DO WE WANT ‘EM?
NOW!
Where I work, we last updated our Windows products in 2004. It will be at least another 3-4 years before we do so again.
Running XP Embedded? I think that's when it's EOL is.
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