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Comments on: Microsoft sends second wave of layoff notices to 3,000

Software maker, which announced in January it would cut up to 5,000 jobs over 18 months, has now eliminated nearly that many positions as more than 3,000 layoff notifications are sent out Tuesday.

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by sargess25 May 6, 2009 10:17 AM PDT
"...take further actions on our cost structure including additional job eliminations," Ballmer said in the memo ...

not a very elegant way to describe redundancies but then what to expect from a company led by a CEO who's the epitome of uncouthness, who slings from TV studios to IT conferences with same panache of a corpulent, sweaty monkey. A company that sells overblown, convoluted, virus friendly software that so much appeal to the uneducated and impecunious masses who shop at Walmart.

not surprising really
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by kcotham May 7, 2009 3:59 PM PDT
I don't think I could have said it better sargess25.
by Patm64 May 7, 2009 7:32 AM PDT
Vegaman Dan - You are incorrect - contractors are not included in the 5000 - in many department the numbe of contractors has increased.... and there are many, many, many contractors on the Redmond Campus
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by daviddohoney June 23, 2009 7:30 AM PDT
Poor Bill, What a humanitarian.
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