A new report from
Fudzilla claims that Microsoft is getting ready to
lay off 15,000 employees, or about 17% of its worldwide staff. The axe will apparently fall on January 15th, exactly one week before its second quarter earnings report, and they expect MSN division to be hit hardest, while the
successful Xbox crew will probably make it out relatively unscathed. Meanwhile, an anonymous blogger who goes by the name Mini-Microsoft and claims to be an employee well-versed in the goings-on inside the company has been fielding questions from other purported Microsoft workers on recent cutback concerns. This past Monday he posted a handful of anonymous comments saying that the rumored layoffs aren't happening -- at least not in January -- although a re-organization might be in the cards. Both reports should be taken with a grain of salt, but one thing's for certain -- Windows 7 is gonna rule.
[Via
Joystiq]
Read - Fudzilla report
Read - Mini-Microsoft
posted Dec 31st 2008 9:03PM
Finally, they need to trim down and reevaluate.
Agreed. They are putting out their best OS (arguably) ever, cutting the fat, and going to storm into 2009 a whole new company.
Yep. Fat ol' Microsoft's cholesterol levels are just too high. Back to vegetables, fruits, and a healthy serving of carbs and meats :)
Can't wait for windows 7.
@BobFromVegas who wrote "Fat ol' Microsoft's cholesterol levels are just too high. Back to vegetables, fruits, and a healthy serving of carbs and meats".
Meat isn't healthy, not unless you are a lion or a tiger!
BTW my cholesterol level is about 130, and you won't find any cases of heart disease with anyone under 150, that means I'll probably outlive Microsoft :)
Oh and don't forget the cake. Microsoft needs cake-what else would they use a Macbook Air for then?
Go back to your pot smoking hippie friends you wimpy vegetarian, you need more protein. Meat is an essential food group. I eat meat every day and I am extremely healthy. I feel bad for you, no bacon.
All legumes and various whole grains contain plenty of protein for humans. Martina Navratilova is a vegetarian and she played competitive tennis for longer than any other player! And you cannot say she is not healthy!
Over the course of our evolution, human digestive tract has become more suited for a mostly vegetarian diet. The length of our intestine is a dead giveaway. All carnivores have intestines that are less than 10 feet long. Ours is greater than 20 feet long.
That's because we aren't carnivores, we're omnivores.
And in any case, let's keep diverse. If our economy fails completely and we lose the huge corporations mass producing our food we're effed.
Vegans, Carnivores... whatever. I say to hell with the lot of you. I'M a VAGITARIAN!!!!!
P.S. Your body need meat, plain and fucking simple.
Plus alligator skin shoes look fucking sweet sticking out the bottom of my calf skin pants. Smooth as butter on my bare ass.
Hope you enjoy your wheat grass and hemp clothing, douche's.
Wouhouuuu! Meat/vegetables flame war!!!
I so wanna eat a good couscous though...
and what about fishes... Okinawa people have the longest life. We should mesure their intestine! Me im in the dark side of japan... Osaka, where yakitori and yakiniku are the least of our sins...
Humans are omnivorous. That means we can absorb nutrients from both vegetable and plant sources and, although the bulk of our diet should really be vegetable based, to suggest that we're better off exclusively choosing one over the other is just silly since the purpose of food is actually to keep you alive.
So , vegans, consider this: If you're in the middle of a desert, two weeks from civilization and with nothing but a fortnight's supply of beef jerky to keep you going then you're going to lose that argument pretty bloody quickly.
I'm a meatatarian. It's a personal choice. You have to commit to it.
To all you vegan flamers out there...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2852662944_29e5398a30.jpg?v=0
Oh and yes, variety is good. I'm not saying eating a steak a day is good for you (there are leaner meats out there), but others like chicken, turkey, fish, etc are still good alternatives and each offer different nutrients than the other. It's true that eating meat alone and forgetting veggies altogether is NOT good for you, but a mix in between is quite good. Lots of vegans/vegetarians jump on the bandwagon because the only see the "animal killing", not knowing the impacts on their own health (everyone has to be selfish to some degree). Lots simply don't realize the nutrients they miss out on (like vitamin B-12) and are actually doing more harm than good. Anyways, lets get back to the original topic ..
I have fallen in love ...... with an operating system. The windows se7en beta is, to sum it up, amazing. so much better than vista, eons ahead of xp, and osx doesn't even compare.
heu really? shit I dont know because you may be just trolling around but you make me want to see that for myself!!
that's the glasser extension for firefox along with stylish for the bookmarks bar, although i reverted back to the normal bar.
I'm with you here. I'm using it (Beta 1) right now on a 3 yr old celeron laptop with all the bells and whistles running and it runs just as well as if it was XP. Check out Orbit30's patches that get rid of that ugly "send feedback" link on all the windows along with the desktop watermark. Can't wait for the RTM so I can start using it full time and get rid of my XP partition. Keep up the good work MS!
Yeah, it really flies on my athlon 64 x2 500+ and a 4850. How much ram do you have? I have an oldish desktop with a 2.9 ghz celery and 512 mb ram (plus a cruddy pci geforce 6200)
I thought you guys were serious at first. But then I saw the screenshots and realized you were joking. Hehe.. good one.. thanks for the chuckle.
look nice indeed! hope it'll be out in 2009!
Same here, Happy New Year!
Actually it has MANY things from OSX. For example the "stay in doc thing".
IF you ever used OSX you ll find many similarities with Windows 7 even in Vista and they were all first appeared at OSX for some reason.
Apple spying on Microsoft or Microsoft copying Apple ?
I think the answer is very obvious to the most of the people.
Wait for it's release and see it in operation with everyday PC users first before making the "it's amazing" comments. I am sure people said that about Vista.
Still it does look a lot better though.
Microsoft should give this OS away as compensation.
@adrian,
Why should MS give W7 away since, you know, Vista isn't actually broken, works fine and actually caused fewer issues than XP?
Seriously. I'm interested in your answer. If you have one.
@Mark Anderson
...Wow, Vista is *far* from "not broken." Just because it works on your machine doesn't mean it works across the board. I had it running for all of two weeks, maybe, before it broke on me. After trying to do *anything*, it would pop up with "Windows Explorer has stopped working and needs to restart," then would proceed to reload the desktop (not reboot), and close all windows. Didn't matter whether I was even trying to use Windows Explorer. After a miserable time trying to troubleshoot it, I fell for Ubuntu's siren call...
You're comparing a beta future OS to an OS that's been out for a year? Ha. Let's see what the final 7 looks like and then compare it to Snow Leopard before you go around spewing windows fan boy crap everywhere.
I find it ironic that this article is directly above the "Microsoft Confirms Zunes Borked" article.
I hope they don't axe any people from the Zune team.
fudzilla? never heard of them. sounds to me like they are just running with the minimsft rumors.
Well, they could do with more people to QA the Zune date-handling code. Perhaps they can fire the people responsible for the latest, seinfeld-heavy advertising campaign and save both money, and embarrassment?
Zune team gets the axe ouch
I hope the layoffs are from the DirectXbox department.
What does MSN do again?
Waste money.
MSN is the #1 reason why Microsoft is failing. A bunch of overpaid useless/redundant bunch of people who do nothing more than having futile meetings 6 times a week talking about the dumbest things that won't help Microsoft one bit - and not to mention having coffee breaks almost every other 2 hours.
Axe that department and focus on building what Microsoft is famous for - SOFTWARE. And I'm very sure it has to do much with the redundant staffing since the purchase of the overpriced Aquantive in Seattle. Before you go and rebutt, think about what MSN does all day ? After years of competition and billion dollar buyout of other ad agencies, MSN still can't dent google even the smallest bit. So you meet all week and talk about strategies but nothing ever comes out of this MSN group. Like I said, a bunch of over paid futile employees who should of been axed a LONG TIME ago.
Focus on what MS does best - SOFTWARE. Fix this up before you lose more market share to APPLE in the OS dept. Bring on Windows 7.
hey hey hey, i know A guy who uses MSN!
I had msn dialup back in the day and it was god awful. only worked for half the week.
Agreed.
MSN is pretty useless, Live is okay though, especially the new services.
MSN Live Messenger .. uh I guess they call it Windows Live Messenger now .. is awesome. Once u get used and start using all its features it's great.
My grandma told me to take Fudzilla with a grain of salt.
Windows 7 = God. Its unarguably their best OS ever. Significantly faster than XP and tremendously faster than vista.
I think you gone a bit far..
Windows Seven is not God.. nor God is Windows Seven.
Well, man is 5 and the devil is 6 and god is 7 so you may be onto something here.
Honestly I've been running it on my laptop and it's great. Then again, Vista flew on this laptop so I would need to compare on something older to see how well they trimmed the desktop window manager and graphical stack to help it run on lower spec machines. So far the only things that don't work are some hotkeys on my laptop that I can't use because the Lenovo software won't install if it doesn't detect you using XP or Vista. Otherwise everything is rock solid.
How far is a man from God?
About a third of a devil, I guess...
You're wrong. Windows 7 is Vista Pro! The underlying core components came straight from Vista.
Oh ironic, Microsoft and Windows 7 will run on less ressources... its kind of good!
Ho shit, if they base the layoff on seniority, that poor little Indian girl is up for an happy new year!
That's a terrible thing to say. It's also a silly thing to say considering that Microsoft India is responsible for service packs.
Dont worry for her... she's 9 years old, a genius, and probably already quite famous on tv there...
I hope they axe J Allard...literally.
Hello...from what I see of Windows 7 it could be called Vista2!.
It appears to be built on the same code base and apparently still uses Vista's Aero Glass (remember that?).
If Microsoft wants to join the OS world it has to get the idea that patents are dead.
This is after all 2009 and we have been using PCs for more than a decade, so we don't need balloons to tell us everything from we are connected to we can now remove a device!
We will continue to use the free OS Linux and ever growing mainstream Ubuntu.
PS. We also DO NOT want to send Microsoft a report...so stop asking.