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- Shaggy3, on 01/08/2009, -2/+26Microsoft is doing fine. The recession is just a great excuse to lose some of their enormous work force that they don't need.
- InactiveCargo, on 01/08/2009, -0/+9The first and second sentences say exactly the same thing. Saying exactly the same thing are the second and first sentences; oh look, a semicolon!
- diggafrica, on 01/08/2009, -2/+11Microsoft didn't have a bad year to be honest. I don't think the financial crisis hit them as hard as other sectors. I think this is just a rumour, sure they may layoff some of their workforce, but not even remotely close to the numbers being exaggerated.
- KibibyteBrain, on 01/08/2009, -0/+8You have to keep in mind, companies like MS will let some teams and staff stay on for no reason, often to make it seem to their best engineers that job stability is perfect and there is no reason to even think about an exit strategy. So when a recession comes about, its a chance to cut unnecessary roles without it scaring away other employees.
- Jinstevens, on 01/08/2009, -0/+7My brother (who works at MS) told me about this. The 15k layoffs were rumors started by two bloggers, one of which was mentioned in the article. Basically it boils down to this: wildly exaggerate the actions of a company, have your blog break the "news", profit. Will MS make work staff adjustments? Sure. Will it be 17% of their work force. Wouldn't bet on it.
- Feep, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6Wow. Both of the above fail at subtlety.
- Digilante, on 01/08/2009, -1/+6If only they had announced a incremental laptop improvement... or maybe an incremental software update.... or how about a DRM free music store! That would have been something.
- ChromaVita, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4You really think there is any chance in hell that a company as big as Microsoft doesn't have a marketing department?
- ThanatosST, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4Yes, MS has a marketing department. I'm pretty sure they usually market to businesses rather than the home consumer, as businesses comprise the majority of their profit. Commercials are how companies reach home consumers. I'm not exactly sure how one markets to other companies in a similar fashion, but I am fairly sure it's not out in the open for everyone to see.
That being said, I do like the fact that they are starting to market to home consumers more. - InactiveCargo, on 01/08/2009, -0/+3The reply button motherfÏ…cker, do you use it?
- ceralon, on 01/08/2009, -2/+5The only ammunition PS3 Fan boys have is the RROD.. Which ms fixes in like less than a week.
Its like when your were in kindergarten, and little Joey says, "oh yeah? Well your mom is fat!"
Please, come up with something else to bash the xbox. I have a wii, ps3 and a 360.. I play the wii more than the ps3, and the 360 more than all of them. It just has a more fun experience. Not to mention, all of my friends are on it.
Oh, and thanks for paying for the R&D of our processor, it works great ;) - FlaNative, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2They should layoff anyone associated with Vista
- crazysamz, on 01/08/2009, -1/+3What you don't like the PC commercials? I liked them a lot because they were a positive way to show how the PC is dominant and why it is, it is best to use for mostly everyone because it suits nearly everyone's computing needs. For everyone else, their's OSX and Linux, but for the majority runs on windows. And I liked how they were able to get the commercials done in a non-negative ad, unlike Apple, who has those dumb ads with barely any fact and a lot of Bias (obviously theirs going to be bias from a competitors perspective). If they did what Apple did, this would just be a stupid fight between two companies bickering about different things in their OS's that make them better than the other, and it would be like 2 children fighting. That's why I thought MS's commercials are cool.
If you don't like the ads, whatever, you don't have to bury me 'cause of my opinion. So I bury you back. - dext3r, on 01/09/2009, -0/+1jackson32 cars, are a thing you drive to, work!
when !!! people, eat food it "relieves, hunger pains, that, are associated with foo,d.
Tha,nk, you for reading my comment an,d getting. Pissed off enough to re,ply back to me!
, - Yage2006, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1Perhaps this could do some good.
They could start with some of the bad designers who work over there. - savingaurora, on 01/10/2009, -0/+1rrod ... sent off for repair... got the xbox back with the same error message ... I'd rather the overpriced glossy black oval.
- dext3r, on 01/09/2009, -0/+1sheesh, i just thought it was funny that the comma showed up a word too late, as that doesn't really happen too often. maybe you're the anal one, sir.
I can translate my comment into your vernacular also: "quess what ***** you are a ***** suckle" - dext3r, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1I can't believe you put the comma after you typed out all of "Microsoft's"
- newbill123, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1The definition of a gross is a dozen dozens = 144
So the unexaggerated layoff count = 14,856
If it's just "grossly" exaggerated. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -3/+4Good point. BTW, how are you enjoying that overpriced PS3? I've noticed that there aren't any games for the PS3 that can't be had for the Xbox......not to mention the fact that some titles are exclusive to the box (cough, Halo3, cough).
- diggThis77, on 01/08/2009, -1/+2@Kibi
By innovation you mean stealing ideas from everyone else, modifying the code just enough to keep them from claiming theft and then marketing it at insane prices? Yeah, I definitely wouldn't want someone like that to fail at all. - crazysamz, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1No, but you never know when you'll be wrong about something, then if your on digg you'll likely get buried. That's why I try not to assume when it comes to digg.
- AresDiggs, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1ignore me i'm late..
digg dowwwwnnnnn - kibbledbits, on 01/12/2009, -0/+1Layoffs at Microsoft? Who else will they have to bury their competitors articles and digg their own?
buried -> buried -> buried -> buried -> buried -> buried -> buried - Wang, on 01/16/2009, -0/+1Microsoft chief accounting officer says no layoffs:
http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_chief_accounti ... - Tkeo, on 01/13/2009, -0/+1The rumor about 15K+ layoff at Microsoft appeared in the news in December, 2008:
http://layoffblog.com/2008/12/30/microsoft-layoff/ - KibibyteBrain, on 01/08/2009, -2/+2MS having financial problems won't increase competition, it will only decrease innovation. It is a lose-lose.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -5/+4After the Xbox360 fiasco, they deserve to be laid off. My PS3 purchase has been vindicated every time a new RROD story breaks out.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -1/+1Sitting on the pile of money they have is hardly financial trouble.
- crazysamz, on 01/08/2009, -5/+5If they do have layoffs, I would say that the only department that would need some improvement is their marketing. That is if they have any sort of a marketing department. That's MS's problem, they have great products, many of them much better than the competition, but they usually don't market them enough or very well. One example is the Zune, they have these new commercials with Common, which I though was a pretty good commercial, but they never have any commercials that show consumers the actual Zune device and what it can do. Usually they're just interesting commercials with good music in them, but nothing to inform consumers as to why they should get a Zune.
They have been doing a great job with Marketing Windows though, with the Mojave initiative and The very cool "I'm a PC" commercials. Xbox has some interesting commercials too, and they're pretty good. But they have so many products out there that they don't advertise much, certainly not on TV, and not many people use them as a result, despite them being great products. Like a lot of their windows live products, if I wasn't such a geek I would probably only know about windows live messenger, and that would be it. That's why they need some fresh new marketing and more of it, and it seems like they're starting to go in that direction, but I think it should be done faster and should have been done a while ago. - awesometastic1, on 01/08/2009, -1/+1I'm confused about this DRM free music store comment. I have a zune subscription, which not only allows me to get all the free songs i want for my zune and my wifes zune under 1 subscription, legally, but also gives me 10 free songs a month to download for ANY device or burn to cd. They are mine to keep forever (isn't that DRM free???).
So basically you can buy songs from the Zune marketplace and put them on any mp3 player (i've done this) or get the subscription and get the best of both worlds ($14.99 a month, so basically $5 for the subscription and you buy 10 songs a month if you prefer to look at it that way). - inactive, on 02/09/2009, -0/+0If layoffs are what it takes in this economy, then the company will lay people off. Microsoft is all about dominating and being profitable. They finally got their Gaming division in the black. It's always sad that people have to be let go from a company, but it may be necessary.
- jackson32, on 01/09/2009, -0/+0im sure his ego is a little more inflated knowing that he was able to point out that i misplaced a comma. Either that or he is really anal about comma usage.
- maloventevil, on 01/08/2009, -1/+1@Digilante: your uninformed post is proof enough that they should fire zune's marketing department. they DO have DRM free music. However, if you get a subscription, you get UNLIMITED drm'd downloads per month, and 10 FREE UNDRM'D downloads per month as well (in 192kbps mp3 format)
- rheaume, on 01/08/2009, -1/+1Gross! ly
- jackson32, on 01/09/2009, -0/+0i cant belive your really anal enough to post a comment on where someone left a ***** comma dumbass.
- jackson32, on 01/09/2009, -0/+0quess what ***** you *****, hope you see that *****.
- diggThis77, on 01/08/2009, -1/+1I love that line of "I can play games on mine while yours breaks". Yeah...true...for a week. Then not only do I have a brand new xbox, another 2 year long warranty and a free month of xbox live for my troubles but I have a gaming system that actually has games that I want to play on it.
With that said I'll be buying a PS3 when the price drops here in a few weeks but only because I want a blue ray player. If PS3 gets a game in the next few years that people might actually play I might actually use the console for the purpose intended. - pandikukka, on 01/08/2009, -2/+0XBox can overtake Sony with even 20000 lay offs.
Sony has to come up something better than PS3 to keep their position in the market - nirav72, on 01/08/2009, -1/+1You know things are bad when Microsoft is considering layoffs.
- Deveak, on 01/08/2009, -2/+1I am going to nit pick a minor error of yours, dissect it, blow it out of proportions, insult your intelligence, and all while feeling a smug sense of superiority. YAY! Grammar Nazi!
- jackson32, on 01/08/2009, -1/+0Amen crazysamz Microsofts, marketing department is lacking to say the least.
- Shirk, on 01/08/2009, -7/+4Just like with everything else, Microsoft is just late getting on the bandwagon.
- FlimBlimmer, on 01/08/2009, -6/+4Buried for "The very cool "I'm a PC" commercials".
- itsjakelyon, on 01/08/2009, -6/+3Predictable with that boring CES keynote. Nothing startlingly new.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -4/+1Just tried it out loud and it went more like
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whirls - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -5/+1At least I can play games on my machine.
- Repeater2000, on 01/08/2009, -7/+2Yet Sony's CES presentation mentioned the Playstation brand... ZERO times.
MS was all UP IN the 360 for their presentation.
opa-ages.com - livewire1337, on 01/08/2009, -6/+0omg! gasp! not my xbox!
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