Microsoft To Cut Workforce By 18,000 This Year, ‘Moving Now’ To Cut First 13,000

For those that follow Microsoft and Nokia: does this effectively mean that the acquisition has been a failure? Or was this the plan all along?

Firing mostly Nokia employees. A buy to gut operation.

Gordon Gecko would be proud!

Low cost is key. MS wants the Chinese, African, and Indian markets as they ride the wave to income parity.

They are killing the Nokia X Android line too[1], just as I predicted in a comment[2] about that line being insurance by Nokia against the deal falling apart in the story about them releasing Android phones[3]. The comments are interesting in retrospect.

From [1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/17/5911909/microsoft-kills-of...

>"In addition to the portfolio already planned, we plan to deliver additional lower-cost Lumia devices by shifting select future Nokia X designs and products to Windows Phone devices," says Elop. "We expect to make this shift immediately while continuing to sell and support existing Nokia X products."

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7937173

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7936919

Once again, Hacker News is tomorrow's newspaper today.

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