The winds of change are once again sweeping through Redmond. According to recent reports, Microsoft is gearing up for another set of workforce reductions, zeroing in on underperforming employees as part of its strategy. For industry observers, this news mirrors recent patterns in the broader...
2025 is opening with some intriguing moves from Microsoft, combining workforce changes with ambitious growth in its Azure cloud infrastructure division. With fewer than 1% of its approximately 228,000-strong global workforce affected, the tech giant has leaned into small but notable...
The New Year is traditionally a time for fresh starts and optimism. However, at Microsoft's Redmond HQ, it seems the countdown to 2025 brought less cheer for some employees. Microsoft has kicked off the year with another round of job cuts affecting underperforming roles, including in its...
Microsoft, one of the tech industry’s giants, has started the new year with news no employee wants to hear: layoffs. While job cuts have become something of a recurring theme in the post-pandemic tech world, this time, Microsoft’s strategy has taken an intriguingly surgical approach...
In a move that might raise some eyebrows but not quite spark the hysteria of wide-scale corporate layoffs, Microsoft recently announced job cuts that affect less than 1% of its 228,000-strong global workforce. While these layoffs stem primarily from performance evaluations, the timing tells a...
The one where we beat Miracast to death
In the latest episode of Windows Weekly, Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley and I discuss our trip next week to San Francisco, which Windows devices are the most popular, some new Windows Phones from BLU, iPhone 6 vs. Windows Phone, Microsoft's multiple wireless...
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Facebook is sitting pretty, what with that $450 million Goldman infusion you may have heard a little about, but rival social networkers MySpace have not been so lucky. The News Corp. site will, in fact, lay off half of its 1,100-person staff later this month, according to a source familiar with...
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