Comments on: Microsoft to Layoff 17% of Staff?

By: Dichroic Jewelry

Dichroic Jewelry — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:27:43 +0000

The news is bad (5,000 layoffs over 18 months) but fortunately not as bad as rumored.

By: Beaver Cleaver

Beaver Cleaver — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:55:08 +0000

Is it possible that MSFT leaks fake layoff news to spur other smaller, less stable IT compeition to loose their cool and do stupid things?

Nope, just another penguin wet dream.

By: joe smith

joe smith — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:29:44 +0000

Microsoft is like the measuring stick for the I.T industry. If they are laying off their employees, other smaller companies will follow. One’s perception can lead to other’s chaotic decisions. Other businesses will be affect by it, not just in software development.

By: McRaaN

McRaaN — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:52:33 +0000

Microsoft being top corporate giant of software areana,layoff is a shocker for the outside world and wish that good fortune help them without any further Layoff.

By: Photo Canvas Prints

Photo Canvas Prints — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:45:37 +0000

It is difficult to digest that corporate giant like Microsoft planning to have layoff. Hope that things go well for them in this new year with out further bad news.

By: Anthony Lawrence

Anthony Lawrence — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:26:49 +0000

It’s easy to dislike a company that even a Federal judge disliked for their avarice and said (From WikiPedia)

Microsoft executives had “proved, time and time again, to be inaccurate, misleading, evasive, and transparently false. … Microsoft is a company with an institutional disdain for both the truth and for rules of law that lesser entities must respect. It is also a company whose senior management is not averse to offering specious testimony to support spurious defenses to claims of its wrongdoing.”

But heck, nothing wrong with that, right? Nice folks. Good on them.

By: freddyb

freddyb — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:20:07 +0000

People like Anthony Lawrence amaze me. I guess it’s easy to dislike a winner… Like any great sporting dynasty, i suppose you start to pull for the underdogs after some time.

Here’s hoping the layoffs aren’t as bad as anticipated and here’s to continued growth by one of the US’s few cash-rich companies in no danger of requiring a tax-payer bailout.

By: Anthony Lawrence

Anthony Lawrence — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:00:47 +0000

I can have empathy for people losing their jobs, but I can’t help being happy about seeing Microsoft as a corporation in trouble.

I’d love to see Microsoft become a bit player, maybe with their most important product being the X-box and their operating systems just a bad memory.

Go, Microsoft, go. Downhill, quickly.