Microsoft - Layoffs
From Boycott Novell
Contents |
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

