Microsoft - Layoffs

November 2008

 * Quick Mention: Layoffs at Microsoft Begin
 * Microsoft Layoffs Actually Began Years Ago, More Likely to Come
 * Quick Mention: More Layoffs at Microsoft

December 2008

 * Microsoft Layoffs Worse Than Initially Reported
 * Rumours: More Microsoft Layoffs Next Month
 * Brokerage Firm Asks Microsoft to Fire Over 9,000 Employees
 * Fudzilla: Microsoft to Fire 15,000 Employees in Two Weeks

January 2009

 * Noted: Indian Express and The Times About 15,000 Microsoft Jobs at Risk (Updated)
 * Microsoft Already Drops Clues About Layoffs
 * Wall Street Journal on Microsoft Layoffs
 * Microsoft Cuts Contractors Spendings by Almost 15%
 * Preliminary Look at Microsoft’s Layoffs and Hogwash
 * Senator Criticises Microsoft for Betraying Americans (Update)
 * Wrap-Up of Microsoft’s Demise; Units Shut Down
 * Cringely Says Microsoft Should Fire 50,000 Employees; More Dead Teams Surface
 * Microsoft Collapse Leads to Federal Confrontation

February 2009

 * Quick Mention: More Microsoft Layoffs — Already
 * More Microsoft Products Shut Down, Possibly Related to Quiet Layoffs
 * Doomsday Part I: Microsoft’s Razorfish Apparently Dumps Microsoft Technology Amid Rumoured Sale of This Massive Microsoft Asset
 * Microsoft Cuts by Another 10%… of Wages

March 2009

 * Cutbacks at Microsoft, More Canceled Products Rumoured (Corrected)
 * Eye on Microsoft: Failures Galore This Week

April 2009

 * Is Microsoft About to Announce More Layoffs?
 * Eye on Microsoft: More Layoffs, Also in Microsoft Ally Infosys; Vista 7 Rejected Before Arrival
 * Good News, Good Site News, and More Microsoft Layoffs Rumoured
 * Microsoft Does Not Deny Rumours of Further Layoffs

May 2009

 * Microsoft Cuts 5,000 Staff, More Likely to Come
 * MSN Direct, MSDN Magazine and Other Unnamed Microsoft Divisions Hit by Layoffs
 * A Look at Microsoft’s Uneven Layoff Patterns Around the Globe, More Likely Coming
 * Another Microsoft Product Officially Dies, More Layoffs, Tellme Founder Quits Microsoft
 * Head of Microsoft Philippines Ditches the Company, More Layoffs Revealed (But Microsoft Withholds Details)

June-September 2009

 * Microsoft Prepares a Bogus Study to Defend Abandonment of American Workforce
 * Fill the (Microsoft) Blank: “I Don’t See Any Potential for Us to _________ This Year.”
 * Microsoft Workforce to Shrink by Another 2,000 or More
 * Microsoft Lays Off More Employees Across the US, But Hires Near SCO
 * Over 2,000 Microsoft Employees Lose 75% of Stock Options Value

October 2009

 * Microsoft Works Dies, More Layoffs Reported
 * Microsoft Continues Downward Slide
 * Microsoft Employee Wants the Company to Fire 20,000 More Staff
 * Microsoft Layoffs Rumoured (November 4th) After Bad Results

November 2009

 * Quick Mention: Boycott Novell Was Right About Microsoft Layoffs

December 2009

 * Microsoft Gets Rid of Many More Employees

2010

 * Rumours of Additional (Stealth) Microsoft Layoffs
 * Former Microsoft Executive: Microsoft Should Lay Off 30%-40% of Its Workforce
 * Quick Mention: More Microsoft Layoffs
 * News Reports About Microsoft’s Confirmation of Layoffs
 * FBR Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley Both Cut Microsoft Estimates While Microsoft is Hiding the Losses and Layoffs Are Rumoured for Next Month
 * “Hearing Lots of Rumors of More {Microsoft} Layoffs Next Week or the Week After.”
 * Microsoft’s Debt is Growing and More Layoffs Likely Imminent Based on Steve Ballmer’s Remarks

2011

 * Microsoft Forced to Reveal More Layoffs, Offshoring; Sues Escapees

2012

 * Microsoft to Start 2012 With More Layoffs

2013

 * Microsoft is Unloading Divisions, Many Employees Leave
 * Microsoft is Hiring Moles Inside Free/Open Source Software (the Competition) While Sacking Its Own Staff (Microsoft Layoffs Silently Occurring Every Quarter)

2014

 * Microsoft Layoffs of 2014
 * Microsoft’s Latest Round of Massive/Bulk/Large-scale Layoffs
 * Microsoft’s Massive Layoffs Go Far Beyond Nokia; Nokia’s Android Phones Axed by Microsoft’s Elop

2015

 * Sadistic Microsoft Layoffs: Christians Fired on Easter Shortly After Microsoft Fired Many Chinese on Chinese New Year
 * The Future of Computing is Mobility and Microsoft Cannot Do Anything But Patent Extortion Against Android/Linux, So More Massive Layoffs Are Announced by Microsoft
 * Corporate Media Frames Microsoft Layoffs as ‘Nokia Layoffs’, Despite Contradictory Facts
 * Shamelessly Rewriting the History of Nokia to Embellish Massive Microsoft Layoffs
 * Vista 10 is 'Swiss Cheese' With Critical Bugs, More Microsoft Layoffs (HoloLens) Announced. So Why Did OpenBSD Accept Microsoft's $1,000,000 Bribe?

2016

 * More Microsoft Layoffs as the Company Tries to Turn GNU/Linux Into Its Own Proprietary Platform
 * Microsoft’s Patent Blackmail Against Linux Not Enough to Keep Microsoft Afloat, Many More Layoffs Coming

Also see: Microsoft - Offshoring and Visas