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> The Street also expects Microsoft to formally announce 700 job cuts as part of its previously announced plan to cut 2,850 jobs by June 2017. Interesting, the
by smnc 10y ago
> The Street also expects Microsoft to formally announce 700 job cuts as part of its previously announced plan to cut 2,850 jobs by June 2017.
Interesting, the linked article calls it an "effort to update skills across the company."
- nikanj 10y agoOut with the old, in with the new. Why pay a senior $250k, when you can pay a junior $100k, and get more hours out of them too?
- devonkim 10y agoIn a certain respect I can also see that meaning "we don't sell WebTV anymore, I think we can lose people that were maintaining that crap." I mean heck, they shut it down only in late 2013 years and years after it left consumer consciousness, who knows how many random enterprises were trying to keep paying Microsoft to maintain the business equivalents of Microsoft Bob, right?