Without Vista there isn't the need for 800 tech support guys in India named John.

Oh yeah? Well Apple laid off 1600 people in April proving that they do everything better and first.

They killed 800 people???

/DNRTFA
//Obviously know what it meant

Paging Linux_Yes...please pick up the white courtesy phone.

lajimi: Thanks for helping us get Windows 7 out in a timely fashion...SEE YA!
I wonder how many of the 800 know where the security holes in Windows 7 are and how they will use that information.


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I wonder how many who did utilize that information would go to jail? At least they'd have a free place to stay and free meals and TV.

rmz: Paging Linux_Yes...please pick up the white courtesy phone.

There is no talking on the white courtesy phone, talking is only allowed on the red courtesy phone.

GoDawgs!: Oh yeah? Well Apple laid off 1600 people in April proving that they do everything better and first.

You win the day sir.

So which divisions could it be? With Windows 7 and Server 2008R2 out, maybe a few less developers. Does the Zune division make money? Office 2010 division is probably safe along with Visual Studio 2010 teams. Maybe Azure's shipping container server farms are leading to less people needed to watch their servers.

What their termination notices may have looked like....

Talon: lajimi: Thanks for helping us get Windows 7 out in a timely fashion...SEE YA!
I wonder how many of the 800 know where the security holes in Windows 7 are and how they will use that information.


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I wonder how many who did utilize that information would go to jail? At least they'd have a free place to stay and free meals and TV.

If they're dumb enough to get caught they probably shouldn't have been hired in the first place.

I thought all new (for the past decade) MS folks were temp or contract workers?

PumpUpDaFark: rmz: Paging Linux_Yes...please pick up the white courtesy phone.

There is no talking on the white courtesy phone, talking is only allowed on the red courtesy phone.

Listen, Betty. Don't give me that white phone shiat again.

Does the Zune division make money?

That's the funniest post of the day.

Microsoft is just giving them the opportunity to broaden their experience in the industry by finding new jobs... something Apple would never do. Linux, on the other hand, doesn't have employees, so you know it can't be good. Just like why I buy Norton Antivirus. You have to pay for the good stuff.

Lean management in action.

jehovahs witness protection: Without Vista there isn't the need for 800 tech support guys in India named John.

My name is John so I'm getting a lol out of this reply.

You get what you give M$.

GoDawgs!: Oh yeah? Well Apple laid off 1600 people in April proving that they do everything better and first.

And I bet they gave them better severance packages along with their pink slips nicely packaged in a clean white box.

Why is a reduction in force of 800 people news from a company of many 10s of thousands? What? Oh right, this is Fark. Someone should write a book about stupid news stories. What? oh right...nevermind...

RexNexus: Why is a reduction in force of 800 people news from a company of many 10s of thousands? What? Oh right, this is Fark. Someone should write a book about stupid news stories. What? oh right...nevermind...it's about Micro$oft and people love to bash Micro$oft.

FTFY

/even fixed it with a $ in place of the s for the fanbois.

What is Zune?

rmz: Paging Linux_Yes...please pick up the white courtesy phone.

WHOA WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! man, its kinda' nice to see billy tighten that belt a little.

the ironic thing is that the more a company lays off people, the higher its stock price goes because employees are the single biggest cost of any business.

course, in the long run, that will bite you in the ass. just ask GM. they fired their middle class employees who could afford to buy their cars. oooppss.

down with employees!!!! frkkkk 'em! its all about my stock prices now!

RexNexus: Why is a reduction in force of 800 people news from a company of many 10s of thousands?

Because we're wondering just what these 800 people were doing that they can now be let go.

MS_Yes: Linux


yea, well, if the Monopoly$oft OS was designed as well as UNIX/Linux, then it would not need antivirus....


and Linux hosts more web sites than any other OS in the world, so don't say that Linux is not as exposed to malware as windows is. sorry, but that excuse ran out of steam a long time ago....