Microsoft laying off employees, Xbox not their core value

[Mac071415]

Rest in peace @PS4 sorry to hear you're getting laid off. I mean they do pay you right?!?

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

Rest in peace @PS4 sorry to hear you're getting laid off. I mean they do pay you right?!?

He's pro bono.

 

[ItWasWritten]

Title still fukked up even after being "fixed"

The arcadium is such trash right now

Stooge!!!!

 

[PS5 Pro]

We need to put corndog on suicide watch.

Spoiler

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

Spoiler

Threaten to merk me on an internet forum breh.

 

[PS5 Pro]

Threaten to merk me on an internet forum breh.

You probably really that bytchmade to feel threatened from what I said

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

You probably really that bytchmade to feel threatened from what I said

Naw breh I just feel sorry for you. I don't wish death on anyone. I can tell you going through it right now. Stay away from the knives and medicine cabinet breh.

 

[marcuz]

Good thing I switched teams

The Ls these larryboys have been racking up

 

[marcuz]

Title still fukked up even after being "fixed"

The arcadium is such trash right now

ruin the forum then complain about it, brehs

 

[PS5 Pro]

Naw breh I just feel sorry for you. I don't wish death on anyone. I can tell you going through it right now. Stay away from the knives and medicine cabinet breh.

I didn't wish death upon you, but if they had a time machine I'd run up on your pops with a rag filled with that knock out liquid they be using. I don't remember the name, but I'll google it

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

I didn't wish death upon you, but if they had a time machine I'd run up in the store and return strugglebox for a ps4

fixed

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/17/technology/enterprise/microsoft-job-cuts/index.html

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wasn't kidding -- he really is making bold changes.
The software giant said it would cut 18,000 jobs within the next year -- about 14% of the company's 125,000 employees. That's by far the largest round of layoffs in the company's history.

The previous record came during the lowest point of the Great Recession, when Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30)cut more than 5,000 jobs in 2009 -- the first mass layoff in the company's history.

Most of the latest round of layoffs -- 12,500 -- will come from Nokia's devices and services business that Microsoft recently bought. In a memo to Microsoft's staff, Nadella said that Microsoft found many redundancies between the two companies, including both professional and factory workers.

But Microsoft is also cutting 5,500 other jobs at the company. That's part of the company's new strategy, which Nadella outlined in a separate memo to employees last week. In that note, Nadella said that Microsoft would focus intently on improving its mobile and cloud productivity software, including Office 365, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Skype, OneDrive and Bing.

Nadella said Microsoft was in need of a "culture change." Microsoft's rivals, includingGoogle (GOOGL, Tech30), Apple (AAPL, Tech30) and Amazon (AMZN, Tech30), have in many ways beaten Microsoft at the mobile and cloud game in recent years.

"First, we will simplify the way we work to drive greater accountability, become more agile and move faster," Nadella said. " As part of modernizing our engineering processes the expectations we have from each of our disciplines will change."

Many of the job cuts will come from the management ranks, as Nadella pledged to have fewer layers of "top-down and sideways" oversight "to accelerate the flow of information and decision making."

As the company cuts jobs, Nadella noted Microsoft will be hiring as well in those "strategic areas" that he laid out last week.

Nadella said the first 13,000 job cuts would come in the next six months.

 

[Lord Scion]

18,000 though?!

And dudes here were clowning when Sony had to lay off 5,000


Still horrible for those who lost their jobs though.

When I think more about this, Stephen Elop really ain't shyt tho

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

18,000 though?!

And dudes here were clowning when Sony had to lay off 5,000


Still horrible for those who lost their jobs though.

When I think more about this, Stephen Elop really ain't shyt tho

After the Surface and Strugglebox flopped, they gotta do some type of damage control to stop the bleeding.

 

[Liquid]

pretty sure video games aren't at the "core" of Sony's business either

I would argue that it is for Sony...its the only thing keeping them afloat.

Microsoft on the other hand should sell off the xbox brand if they are looking to dip. Hopefully to an American company.