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Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - space-time - 07-08-2015
I guess it didn't go as well as planned.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/microsoft-shed-7-800-jobs-mostly-phone-business-n388606
Re: Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - Acer - 07-08-2015
Microsoft has a phone business? Huh.
Re: Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - cbelt3 - 07-08-2015
Acer wrote:
Microsoft has a phone business? Huh.
They bought Nokia.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/25/microsoft-nokia-merger-details/
Windows Phone. Which is WAY beleagured. 2.7 % of the market in Q1 2015.
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp
Re: Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - MGS_forgot_password - 07-08-2015
cbelt3 wrote:
They bought Nokia.
They bought Nokia's phone division. Nokia's still around and doing ok. (not great, but nobody in that industry is)
Re: Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - Will Collier - 07-08-2015
My work-provided cell is a Windows Phone. It makes an excellent paperweight.
Re: Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - cbelt3 - 07-08-2015
I just noticed that they are taking a $ 7.6 BILLION asset impairment charge on the Nokia assets. Woof. That's $ 400 Million MORE than they paid for Nokia's device unit.
Yeah, that's a FAIL. A Ballmer Balls-Up.
Re: Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - pdq - 07-08-2015
Will Collier wrote:
My work-provided cell is a Windows Phone. It makes an excellent paperweight.
Ha.
When I joined my current employer in 2011, one of the perks I got was a free cell phone and service. A Blackberry. Well, it was free, right?
Recently they let us know Blackberry will NO LONGER BE SUPPORTED, and we need to select a new company cell phone, from a list of one: a Samsung ATIV (IIRC).
Oh well, it's free, and Samsung makes passable phones, and my wife uses Android, so...
wait. What?! yep - Windows Mobile.
Gotta say this for my company's IT department. They sure know how to pick em...wrong.
On T-Mobile's family plan, it's only $10 more a month to add one more smartphone with 2.5 gigs of data. I think rather than learning a new smartphone that's going away in a year, I'm gonna bite the bullet and just get an iPhone out of my own pocket.
Re: Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - tronnei - 07-08-2015
I met a guy a couple of years ago who had a Windows phone. It's the only one I've ever seen.
Re: Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - SteveO - 07-08-2015
Ballmer did them no favors. His persona just seemed to (and continues to) shroud that brand in uncool. At least Gates was a lovable nerd, a humble and amiable enough fellow from interviews I've seen. Ballmer...ummm, no...just the opposite and still at it even after he's left the company. He's the Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld of the business world.
I don't think that phone or anything else "new" they make ever has a chance with the memory of Ballmer around. They have Office which is a mainstay and always will be. The rest...not trying to be cruel or insensitive, but I wish them luck. I have a buddy who is a super-good guy who works in marketing in their phone division. I imagine he'll lose his job. Sad.
Re: Microsoft to Shed Up To 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phone Business - steve... - 07-08-2015
What's the sprawling Microsoft campus in Redmond look like these days? Is it still all MS or are they leasing out buildings to other companies?