Microsoft - Layoffs
From Techrights
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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
November 2009
December 2009
2010
- Rumours of Additional (Stealth) Microsoft Layoffs
- Former Microsoft Executive: Microsoft Should Lay Off 30%-40% of Its Workforce
- Quick Mention: More Microsoft Layoffs
- News Reports About Microsoft’s Confirmation of Layoffs
- FBR Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley Both Cut Microsoft Estimates While Microsoft is Hiding the Losses and Layoffs Are Rumoured for Next Month
- “Hearing Lots of Rumors of More {Microsoft} Layoffs Next Week or the Week After.”
- Microsoft’s Debt is Growing and More Layoffs Likely Imminent Based on Steve Ballmer’s Remarks
2011
2012
2013
- Microsoft is Unloading Divisions, Many Employees Leave
- Microsoft is Hiring Moles Inside Free/Open Source Software (the Competition) While Sacking Its Own Staff (Microsoft Layoffs Silently Occurring Every Quarter)
2014
- Microsoft Layoffs of 2014
- Microsoft’s Latest Round of Massive/Bulk/Large-scale Layoffs
- Microsoft’s Massive Layoffs Go Far Beyond Nokia; Nokia’s Android Phones Axed by Microsoft’s Elop
2015
- Sadistic Microsoft Layoffs: Christians Fired on Easter Shortly After Microsoft Fired Many Chinese on Chinese New Year
- The Future of Computing is Mobility and Microsoft Cannot Do Anything But Patent Extortion Against Android/Linux, So More Massive Layoffs Are Announced by Microsoft
- Corporate Media Frames Microsoft Layoffs as ‘Nokia Layoffs’, Despite Contradictory Facts
- Shamelessly Rewriting the History of Nokia to Embellish Massive Microsoft Layoffs
- Vista 10 is 'Swiss Cheese' With Critical Bugs, More Microsoft Layoffs (HoloLens) Announced. So Why Did OpenBSD Accept Microsoft's $1,000,000 Bribe?
2016
- More Microsoft Layoffs as the Company Tries to Turn GNU/Linux Into Its Own Proprietary Platform
- Microsoft’s Patent Blackmail Against Linux Not Enough to Keep Microsoft Afloat, Many More Layoffs Coming
2020
- Latest Microsoft Layoffs Spun as 'Innovation' (There's Always a Positive PR Angle)
- Don't Fall for the Spin, Microsoft is Laying Off Workers and It's Not Just Because of the Pandemic
- Microsoft Layoffs, Second Time in Less Than a Month (and People Lose Their 'Mixer')
- Microsoft Has Nothing Left in Store (all stores shut down)
- Microsoft is Lying About Everything, Even the Layoffs
- More Microsoft Layoffs (Fourth Round of Layoffs in 1.5 Months)
- Microsoft “Declined to Elaborate on the Roles Which Had Been Eliminated” Means Microsoft Left Leeway for Spin and Lies (But We Know Azure Has More Layoffs)
- Microsoft Lays Off Azure Staff and Much More, Spins These Layoffs as “Optimization Strategy”
- Fifth Round of Microsoft Layoffs in Less Than 2 Months: Another Thousand Job Cuts (6% of LinkedIn Workforce)
- Microsoft is Defrauding Its Shareholders While Laying Off About 5,000 Workers
- Microsoft Lays Off Many More Workers in the Advertising Division/s and Terminates Products While the Press is Distracted by TikTok Rumours
- Meme: Is It Not a Layoffs Round When You Rebrand It?
- Microsoft Sheds Off Lots of Staff in This Autumn of COVID
2021
2022
- More Microsoft Layoffs for Second Month in a Row (Those That Microsoft Even Openly Admits, Cannot Hide Anymore)
- Number of Microsoft Layoffs Vastly Higher Than Microsoft Publicly Signals (the Perma-Temp and Contractor Loopholes)
- In Addition to Microsoft Laying Off Many Workers, Entire 'Business' Units Get Shut Down Permanently
- Microsoft Death Spiral: Microsoft Fires 200 Employees “Working to Win Back Customers”
- Microsoft Firing 10%, Not 1%, of Staff (Microsoft Lies to the Media, Figures One Order of Magnitude Off)
- Microsoft Layoffs Are Huge and Engaging With Microsoft Lowers Your Employment Prospects
- Microsoft: Azure is Our Future. Also Microsoft: TWO Rounds of Layoffs in Azure So Far This Year (Stock Crashes Again).
- Microsoft is Laying Off Contractors, Not Only Full-Time Staff (the Ones Counted or Mentioned by Microsoft)
- Rumour: More Microsoft Layoffs (Big Layoffs) Next Month
- Rumour: Very Large Microsoft Layoffs (Another Round) Next Month, Lists Already Being Prepared
- Microsoft Layoffs Again
- With 2022 Azure Layoffs and Many Other Microsoft Units Failing (Losing Money) Expect Microsoft to Pursue Buyouts to Fake 'Growth' and Keep Gullible Shareholders' Money
- Microsoft is Crumbling and Large-Scale Layoffs Seem Imminent, Not Just Likely (Acquisitions Help Microsoft Fake Growth That Does Not Exist)
2023
January 2023
- Still Rumours of Microsoft Layoffs This Month
- Microsoft: Four Rounds of Mass Layoffs in 12 Months? Some Rumours Say Five.
- Far More Microsoft Layoffs and Spending Cuts Than the Mainstream/Corporate/Tech Media Reports on
- Latest Rumour: Microsoft Layoffs Next Tuesday (January 17th, 2023)
- New Word/Term for Microsoft Layoffs: Unlimited Time Off
- Microsoft Rumour Mill About January (and July) Waves of Layoffs
- Microsoft: We'll Need Less Space for Staff in 2023
- Sunday (Holiday Weekend) News Drop: Microsoft is Dropping Its Offices in Its Homebase (Seattle)
- Rumour: Microsoft Managers Trained 4 Days Ago on How to Tell About 5,000 Microsoft Employees That They're Sacked
- Rumour: 6,000 More Employees Impacted by Microsoft Layoffs; Managers Informed Today, Staff Informed Tomorrow (Updated)
- Techrights Was Right: 11,000 Workers to Be Culled in Microsoft Layoffs, According to Press Reports
- Behind the Microsoft Layoffs There's an Even Darker Reality
- Microsoft Azure is So Amazingly Successful That Every Year Since 2020 It Has Layoffs (Even This Year)
- Media Policy: Repeat What Microsoft Spokespeople Are Saying, Don't Investigate Simple Facts
- Latest Rumour: Much Larger Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Already Planned for Later This Year
- Azure Has Layoffs Again, Microsoft Still Cutting
Also see: Microsoft - Offshoring and Visas
