Massive Layoffs BY Microsoft

greg9891

Microsoft pulls back from phone business, announces 7,800 layoffs. Expected to happen by year's end. Wow!!!

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srabiee

Wait, what? Pulls back from phone business? I thought that they were releasing the Windows 10 phone soon and it was supposed to finally compete with iOS and Android. wtf

greg9891

yeah it surprised me too. Now I need a new phone bummer lol.

markulous

Not really surprising. They were in a losing war and their mobile OS was going bye bye.

SteveLord

srabiee wrote: »

Wait, what? Pulls back from phone business? I thought that they were releasing the Windows 10 phone soon and it was supposed to finally compete with iOS and Android. wtf

Both Microsoft and their fanboys have said that about every phone since the Windows 7 Phone that was suppose to change everything.

Looks like the Zune crowd will have to make room soon.

InfoTech92

From what I read, I don't think they're pulling out completely.

Just goes to show you ladies and gents, no job is safe. No matter if you have a degree or not, certs or not, or if you work for a huge company like Microsoft. Keep your skills sharp and be the best "you" that you can be.

NetworkNewb

InfoTech92 wrote: »

Just goes to show you ladies and gents, no job is safe. No matter if you have a degree or not, certs or not, or if you work for a huge company like Microsoft. Keep your skills sharp and be the best "you" that you can be.

And also don't work at a section of a company that is losing millions of dollars

Loss Incoming: Microsoft Warns It's Losing Money on Mobile

InfoTech92

NetworkNewb wrote: »

And also don't work at a section of a company that is losing millions of dollars

Loss Incoming: Microsoft Warns It's Losing Money on Mobile

Let's be honest, this doesn't really matter. At any time, any companies department can lose millions of dollars.

networker050184

I mean anyone that worked on Windows phone had to know they were fighting a losing battle right? I know I certainly wouldn't feel safe working in that division. Maybe I'm just smarter than the average bear.....

RoyalRaven

Good example of the popular technology winning again (IOS and Android), even if the other products had high potential. I'm also looking at you Palm..lol.

InfoTech92

networker050184 wrote: »

I mean anyone that worked on Windows phone had to know they were fighting a losing battle right? I know I certainly wouldn't feel safe working in that division. Maybe I'm just smarter than the average bear.....

No, it makes sense. I just don't think that anyone can actually predict it. You think anyone in the last Microsoft layoff was predicting it?

N2IT

MSFT Income Statement | Microsoft Corporation Stock - Yahoo! Finance

MSFT Balance Sheet | Microsoft Corporation Stock - Yahoo! Finance

Remember in the thousands.

greg9891

markulous wrote: »

Not really surprising. They were in a losing war and their mobile OS was going bye bye.

Its going to be interesting to see what microsoft is going to do moving foward.

markulous

greg9891 wrote: »

Its going to be interesting to see what they are going to do moving foward

Since they were going to integrate Android into their phones, they should help develop software with them to take down iOS.

greg9891

The job market for 7,500 employees ......wow the job market just got a lot more competitive.

greg9891

I know for sure other Mobile companies are going to be fighting over them. Like getting Soldiers from the enemy camp. Samsung, Apple, Black berry, LG, Sony. Alot of them might be able to find employment else where.

NetworkNewb

greg9891 wrote: »

I know for sure other Mobile companies are going to be fighting over them. Like getting Soldiers from the enemy camp. Samsung, Apple, Black berry, LG, Sony. Alot of them might be able to find employment else where.

Just more info on the cuts:

"The bulk of the cuts will come from offices in Finland and Brazil, but include at least 129 people from a San Diego office that's being closed, according to a person familiar with the plans. Among the San Diego layoffs coming by summer's end are 28 senior software development engineers, 18 senior program managers and seven senior hardware engineers, Microsoft said in a state filing"

Mike-Mike

SteveLord wrote: »

Looks like the Zune crowd will have to make room soon.

Zune was overpriced, but it was ahead of the game. They had the subscription based model way back. If automakers had embraced the Zune like the iPod, it could have been a real contender.

At this point the subscription model is the future (more like the present), but Microsoft had that model way back

greg9891

NetworkNewb wrote: »

Just more info on the cuts:

"The bulk of the cuts will come from offices in Finland and Brazil, but include at least 129 people from a San Diego office that's being closed, according to a person familiar with the plans. Among the San Diego layoffs coming by summer's end are 28 senior software development engineers, 18 senior program managers and seven senior hardware engineers, Microsoft said in a state filing"

I wonder what type of compensation package the employees are going to be getting.

Deathmage

networker050184 wrote: »

I mean anyone that worked on Windows phone had to know they were fighting a losing battle right? I know I certainly wouldn't feel safe working in that division. Maybe I'm just smarter than the average bear.....

I feel this forum in general makes it's users as a whole smarter than the average bear.

greg9891

Deathmage wrote: »

I feel this forum in general makes it's users as a whole smarter than the average bear.

I agree with Deathmage
This forum has a yogi bear effect !!!!!!!!!!!!

ninjaturtle

Microsoft is going to buy Blackberry. I talked to my buddy Bill, and he confirmed it. Apology letters will go out to all the employees, along with a Microsoft sticker.

scaredoftests

ninjaturtle wrote: »

Microsoft is going to buy Blackberry. I talked to my buddy Bill, and he confirmed it. Apology letters will go out to all the employees, along with a Microsoft sticker.

haha..that is just too funny

bloodshotbetty

They would probably do better if they offered a Soda Crush app.

AnthonyG

Microsoft needs to attack the business market from their mobile phone division. Think of how useful a domain controlled, bitlocker capable, office 365, docking station enabled cell phone could do for the business world.. Am I just crazy and I think they could call it the sPhone short for Surface Phone

If only the battery market would catch up to handle that kind of computing power.

This would also help push companies to move their ADDS to the Azure cloud. Win win for MSFT.

olaHalo

I read that plan is to just focus on the mobile OS and not hardware.

kurosaki00

Too bad
I really like my Lumia 1020

TheCudder

Microsoft's phone division is not being phased out. The 7,800 employees will come from various divisions within the company. Microsoft is planning to create a more focused product line and stopped flooding the market with similar phones (Lumia 430, 435, 535, 532, 635, etc -- all low budget models). They're moving towards a model where they focus on budget, business & flagships.