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Microsoft may announce its biggest layoffs ever on Thursday
ComputerWorld ^ | July 16, 2014 | Stephen Lawson

Posted on 07/17/2014 3:36:19 AM PDT by Innovative

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To: DH

There was a contract labor guy here until very recently who was laid off. Good guy and hard working too. He is starting a job at some metal tab place for a little more money and a chance to apprentice welding. I think he will do well.


21 posted on 07/17/2014 6:03:35 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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Unreal but wouldn’t shock me at all.


22 posted on 07/17/2014 6:05:17 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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Unreal but wouldn’t shock me at all.


23 posted on 07/17/2014 6:05:27 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Innovative

MS has been bloated for 20 years. They could use a good haircut. Too many middle managers and not enough creative thought allowed.


24 posted on 07/17/2014 6:12:43 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Lee N. Field

We went to Windows 7 in 2008 but kept all our Office 2003 products and still use them. That’s what I was thinking of.


25 posted on 07/17/2014 6:33:42 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: Innovative

Had a friend who worked at Microsoft. ..He trained his (Indian) replacement...then got laid off...yeah..I think they all vote Dem...and now consider me a pariah


26 posted on 07/17/2014 7:00:44 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
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We went to Windows 7 in 2008 but kept all our Office 2003 products and still use them. That’s what I was thinking of.

I'm a lot less worried about that combo, than sticking with Windows XP.

27 posted on 07/17/2014 7:58:51 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("How can there be peace when the sorceries and whordoms of your mother TBN are so many?")
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To: Innovative

List of Linux distributions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

List of BSD operating systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BSD_operating_systems


28 posted on 07/17/2014 10:34:43 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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Update: Microsoft to lay off 18,000 in next year
The initial round will affect 12,500 jobs related to Nokia Devices and Services
ComputerWorld
By Elizabeth Heichler, Peter Sayer
July 17, 2014 08:59 AM ET
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249800/Update_Microsoft_to_lay_off_18_000_in_next_year


29 posted on 07/17/2014 10:41:46 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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"Had a friend who worked at Microsoft. ..He trained his (Indian) replacement...then got laid off...yeah..I think they all vote Dem...and now consider me a pariah"

I had a friend who worked there about 20 years ago. He trained his female replacement. She didn't wear underwear. Then he was laid off.


30 posted on 07/17/2014 10:44:36 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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erasing the baumer bloat.


31 posted on 07/17/2014 12:30:57 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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