Micro$haft planning biggest round of job cuts in five years (more than6000 to be axed)
 

Over 100,000 employees employed by the psychopathic, criminal
organization known as Microsoft, and what have they accomplished?

Nothing. Not one damn thing.

14 years later I'm still using a wide variety of software and still
performing all my computing and entertainment activities using Windows
98.

Aside from giving the world the most efficient trojan and botnet-hosting
platform in the form of various NT-based operating systems and creating
the commercial spam and malware industry in the years since Windows
9x/ME were released, Macro$haft has done nothing except crush the
potential for an exciting, secure and vibrant OS landscape for personal
computers.

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After 1.5 years of retail availability:

Vulnerability Report: Microsoft Windows 8

http://secunia.com/advisories/produc...ask=advisories

Affected By:
68 Secunia advisories
200 Vulnerabilities

Unpatched: 1% (1 of 68 Secunia advisories)

The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Microsoft Windows
8, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Not critical
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Now, I could be _really cruel_ and post the number of advisories,
vulnerabilities and especially unpatched vulnerabilities for Windoze 7,
but you can laugh your ass off by looking at them he

http://secunia.com/advisories/produc...ask=advisories
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Meekro$oft's motto: If it works, it's not complicated enough.

Macro$haft: The bloat and exploits go in before the name goes on.

Windows NT/2k/XP/7/8 - Like the Emperor's new clothes - woven from the
finest code, the most expensive threads.

The Windows NT line of Operating systems:
Awarded the NSA Seal of Approval every year since 1999.

Windoze xp (scratch that)
Windows Vista (no wait)
Windows 7 (hold on)
Windows 8: - How do you want to be back-door'd today?

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Microsoft is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years, as
the software maker looks to slim down and integrate Nokia Oyj’s handset
unit, people with knowledge of the company’s plans said.

The reductions -- which may be unveiled as soon as this week -- will
probably be in areas such as Nokia and divisions of Microsoft that
overlap with that business, as well as marketing and engineering, said
the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t
public. The restructuring may end up being the biggest in Microsoft
history, topping the 5,800 jobs cut in 2009, two of the people said.
Some details are still being worked out, two of the people said.

The announcement would come one week after Chief Executive Officer Satya
Nadella issued his first company mission statement, calling for greater
emphasis on mobile devices, cloud-computing and productivity software.
In the July 10 memo, which also called for Microsoft to become more
focused and efficient, Nadella, who took over from Steve Ballmer in
February, said he would provide more specifics on implementation later
this month.

While Microsoft has undergone smaller, intermittent job cuts in
individual businesses -- for example trimming a few hundred positions in
advertising sales and marketing in 2012 and some marketing jobs across
the company earlier that same year -- the company has only undertaken a
companywide restructuring impacting thousands of workers once before, in
2009 at the start of the recession. Over the course of that year, the
company cut 5,800 jobs, or about 5 percent of its workforce at the time.

Some of the job cuts will be in marketing departments for businesses
such as the global Xbox team, said the people. The European Xbox team is
based in Reading, U.K.

The company had 127,104 employees as of June 5, after adding about
30,000 in its acquisition of Nokia’s handset unit.

When Microsoft agreed to acquire Nokia’s mobile-phone business in
September, the software maker pledged $600 million in annual cost
savings in the 18 months after the deal closes. Meeting that commitment
will probably involve job cuts in areas where the two companies overlap,
said the people. Other job cuts may result from changes Nadella is
making to the engineering organization, people with knowledge of the
matter said last week.

Engineering teams have traditionally been split between program
managers, developers and testers. Yet with new cloud methods of building
software, it often makes sense to have the developers test and fix bugs
instead of a separate team of testers, Nadella said in an interview last
week after unveiling his memo.

Nadella declined to say in the interview whether the changes will result
in job cuts and said he would provide more detail on the implications of
his memo when Microsoft reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on July
22.

Some of the cuts will be among software testers, said one of the people.

Microsoft is the latest technology company seeking to reduce costs by
trimming jobs. Hewlett-Packard Co. in May announced more cuts after an
11th-straight quarter of declining sales. CEO Meg Whitman has said she
will eliminate as many as 16,000 jobs on top of 34,000 already cut.

In German trading, Microsoft shares slipped 0.6 percent to the
equivalent of $42.10 at 9:47 a.m. in Frankfurt. The stock closed at
$42.14 in New York yesterday.

Separately Microsoft is in talks to acquire Israeli security firm
Aorato, a maker of firewall software backed by Accel Partners, said one
person familiar with the discussions. The talks are at an early stage
and Aorato may also be negotiating with other parties, the person said.

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