Microsoft slashes up to 5,000 jobs http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/technology/microsoft_jobs/
Excerpt: "Software maker Microsoft announced Thursday it will cut up to 5,000 jobs in the next year and a half, or 5.5% of its global workforce, citing further deterioration of global economic conditions. The company also posted lower fiscal second-quarter earnings that missed analysts' forecasts. Microsoft will slash 1,400 positions immediately, with the rest of the cuts coming by June 2010. The company said it will save about $1.5 billion in operating expenses and $700 million in 2009 capital expenditure." I note that http://www.thestreet.com/story/10459205/1/microsoft-misses- will-slash-jobs.html specifically mentions netbooks as a contributing factor. Keep up the pressure on the OEMs; we need Linux as an option on the netbooks (and Ubuntu specifically, of course ;) And keep up the good work; we need to be able to have perfect 'just working' installs on them for machines that are not specifically Ubuntu preloaded (e.g. Acer Aspire One) -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
