The news that Microsoft plans to lay off some 5,000 employees in the next 18 months has affluent Seattle under a cloud. For Seattle, Microsoft’s job cuts follow similar announcements from that city’s two other large employers, Starbucks and Boeing.
- SEATTLE/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For affluent Seattle, Microsoft is just the tip of the iceberg.
Microsoft’s announcement it will lay off 5,000 in its biggest-ever
job-cut rippled through the Seattle area on Thursday, further unnerving
residents of an already-bruised city of just over 3 million.
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Microsoft reported quarterly results Jan. 22 that missed Wall Street expectations and the software giant announced that it would eliminate 5,000 jobs. The results show that even Microsoft is not immune to the recession in the United States and the sluggish global economy. Microsoft eliminated 1,400 jobs on the day it announced its results and the rest of the cuts will follow during the next 18 months.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft posted quarterly results that
missed Wall Street expectations, announced it would cut up to 5,000
jobs and said it could no longer offer profit forecasts for the rest of
the fiscal year.
Shares of Microsoft fell 8.5 percent in pre-market trading.
Microsoft posted …
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Microsoft, which is scheduled to release its fiscal second quarter results Jan. 22, is expected to post a quarterly profit, but the numbers are expected to be below expectations, which could mean that the software giant could begin cutting thousands of jobs as early as this week. In addition, financial analysts are expected to press Microsoft executives about the prospects of acquiring Yahoo to help expand Microsofts own search capabilities.
- NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft is expected to post a
quarterly profit that misses its own target and announce thousands of
job cuts this week as the global economic slump hurts even the
technology industry’s biggest players.
When the leading software maker reports fiscal second quarter
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The European Commission, the anti-trust enforcement arm of the European Commission, has accused Microsoft of eliminating Internet browser competition in Europe by bundling its Internet Explorer browser with its Microsoft Windows operating system. The preliminary finding by the European Commission is detailed in a letter released by Microsoft Jan. 16. Microsoft is planning to respond to the findings and could request a formal hearing before the commission.
- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) The European Commission accused Microsoft
Corp of violating competition law by including its Internet Explorer
Web browser in Windows operating systems since 1996, the software
company said on Friday.
The executive arm of the European Union had dispatched a quot;statement
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A report in the Wall Street Journal suggests that Microsoft is looking to lay off a number of employees across several of its divisions as the U.S. economy continues its slide into a long recession. However, Microsoft is also considering other plans that would provide an alternative to ordering deep cuts and layoffs. A Microsoft announcement is expected soon.
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is considering significant
layoffs across its various divisions, The Wall Street Journal reported
on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the company’s plans.
But plans for the cutbacks have not yet been firmed up and Microsoft
could end up finding alt…
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A first look at the first beta of Microsofts Windows 7 shows an operating system that takes advantages of features first introduced in the troubled Windows Vista while offering its own share of new enterprise features. Changes to the Start Menu and taskbar in Windows 7 are improvements over Vista and XP, but for some tasks, users will have to rely on third-party applications.
- Without a doubt, the first beta edition of the Windows 7 operation
system indicates that Microsoft is on the right track to shore up many
of the perceived flaws of Windows Vista.
While not a ground-breaking release Windows 7 is at its core very
similar to Windows Vista the new OS has adeptly tak…
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The mere mention of Vista 7 and hints that it will be available in a few years is causing a stir in the press about holding onto Windows XP and skipping Windows Vista altogether. Certainly, an OS change is a major undertaking. So it is understandable why people would like to put off the move. But a closer look at the benefits that can be derived by adopting Windows Vista now should dismiss any thoughts of waiting. To help you make up your own mind, weve compiled a list of the top five reasons why companies are not skipping Vista.
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Announced at the CES show in Las Vegas by CEO Steve Ballmer, the beta version of Microsoft’s highly anticipated new operating system, Windows 7, was released Jan. 9. The successor to Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft officials say the goal is to release Windows 7 in January 2010.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took center stage at the opening of the International CES Jan. 7 to announce that Microsoft would release a beta version of its new Windows 7 operating system this week. In addition, Ballmer announced new partnerships for its Windows Live Essentials product, including a deal with Dell that will allow Microsoft to pre-install Live Search with Dells consumer and small business PCs. Earlier in the day, Microsoft also struck a search deal with Verizon Wireless.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage
at the beginning of the annual International CES expo and announced that the
company would release the beta version of it upcoming Windows 7 operating
system by the end of the week.
In his Jan. 7 keynote at CES, Ballmer announced that the
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Rather than make predictions about what Microsoft might do next year, we take the bolder approach of giving unsolicited advice, whether or not it’s wanted. The list of recommendations is in order of importance, from least to most, from 10 to 1. For those people wanting even more, there is a fuller list at Microsoft Watch.
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