Microsoft cuts 18,000 jobs from global workforce

Shifting jobs more to Vietnam, Brazil and Mexico... countries with not exactly high labour standards. The almighty Gates giveth some with one hand and taketh more with the other.

Shifting jobs more to Vietnam, Brazil and Mexico... countries with not exactly high labour standards. The almighty Gates giveth some with one hand and taketh more with the other.

Gates "gaveth" jobs to tens of thousands, and generated billions of dollars through business which helped the overall economy. He gaveth quite a lot for one person. How many jobs have you yourself provided? How many billions of dollars have you put into the world's economies?

Microsoft has to change with the times, which, despite repeated messages about economic "recovery", has seen little growth over the last half a decade. Either Microsoft cuts staff or outsources 18000 jobs, or they continue as they are until they go bankrupt, and have no workforce at all.

@sangetsu03: Microsoft has to change with the times, which, despite repeated messages about economic "recovery", has seen little growth over the last half a decade. Either Microsoft cuts staff or outsources 18000 jobs, or they continue as they are until they go bankrupt, and have no workforce at all.

Excellent comment !

Once upon a time, Computer meant IBM. Then IBM did not change when Apple began personal computer era. IBM did not change with the times. Now, Microsoft has not change with the times. Apple might have Microsoft type destiny, Technology oriented corporations all have to change with the times. Once upon a time, Sony name dominated. It is now entertainment company.

Not only cutting jobs, but doing whatever they can to hire H1B Visa holders to further screw the American worker.

"How many jobs have you yourself provided?"

I spend about 80% of my income every single month. That money ripples right through the economy throughout a number of different sectors. It becomes revenue for a host of different corporations, which then use the money to hire workers to further cater to my needs.

Yep, I've created plenty of jobs over the years in this consumer-driven economy.

Good point @JeffLee! We consumers too often forget how important we are to the country's economy...without us, the economy is dust!

Dear Mr. Nadella

If you ever read this...

I'm not going to mention my name but let's say I've helped your company a lot.Yes, I was one of those guys. So maybe you should listen.

If you want your customers (users and developers) to keep buying your software, don't repeat mistakes as per the samples below,

The Office Ribbon (which might have been acceptable if you could still manipulate it in the same way as the old toolbars with VBA - same or more functionality, not less. And I know you had more functionality than when it was first released in 2007. It was a gamble which nobody benefited from except the guys who sold the books on how to use it).

The Desktop in Windows 8. Another disaster, like above.

Removing VBA completely from Macs?! I don't use them but seriously? Is it still gone?

I could go on but I'm on lunch.

Stop doing this kind of thing. It's not frustrating people, they will think twice from buying from you again. The number of people, and corporations still with Office 2003 should be telling you something.

OneDrive (SkyDrive) is okay, but I don't appreciate assumptions that I want to save everything there. How about a choice of default directory so I can pick My Documents (sorry, Documents, Documents, whose idea was that?)

Adding new stuff without taking away functionality or compatibility is sweet. Please keep that in mind.

Do the world a favor and lay off the rest, too, Microsoft! There's not a single product you've came up with in the last 10 years that was innovative or exciting.

Most of the cuts are from Nokia:

The company said it would slash 18,000 jobs from its global workforce over the next year, the majority from the Nokia handset unit acquired this year.

Just makes sense, when there's an acquisition, to cut some redundancies to be lean and mean. Microsoft continues to be a very profitable business.

There's not a single product you've came up with in the last 10 years that was innovative or exciting.

Businesses don't need something to be innovative or exciting, but something they can use. That's why they held onto WinXP and servers for the longest time. (Same happened with Unix - nothing flashy but just does its job.) Consumers can get excited; businesses just want to be able to do their business quietly.