Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: If investors had any control over the system MS would have had annual layoffs starting over five years ago until crap turned around.

Thanks for showing why investors should have no say so over how companies are run.

Marine1: Microsoft is fine.

No they're not. This is a great article, but you can't read the whole thing unless you find a copy of Vanity Fair or use your iPad. This week, I had to use something called a "library" like some kind of damn animal.

But it's a great article.

aQuantive was the advertising company they bought, which bombed horribly. So they pulled the plug. Reading the Jobs book, I was surprised by how often Apple would get rid of large groups of people, as projects came and went.

Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: Oh, a company whose stock has been flat for ten years is finally doing some housecleaning? If investors had any control over the system MS would have had annual layoffs starting over five years ago until crap turned around.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Microsoft marketing is the worst conceived, badly executed, wholly contrived shiat out there.

It's so formulaic and obvious. From their shiatty packaging (LOL) to their shiatty commercials (Link), they are end to end suck.

What's interesting is that their gag and parody commercials (see links above) are lightyears ahead of their actual product marketing.

Fark Me To Tears: FTFA: Microsoft Corp. made an indeterminate number of job cuts Wednesday in its marketing and advertising departments.

Considering those are probably the two departments they suck most in, I'm sort of surprised by this.

Otherwise, this is trimming of "fat". It sucks for the guys that are being let go, but I'd imagine that if you were smart enough to get on at Microsoft, there are several small-time agencies that would choke out a puppy to hire you.

Microsoft is fine.