: generally escape - Microsoft ideas to lay off eighteen months in 5000 Microsoft released the second quarter earnings , task cuts planned eighteen months 5000 . According to foreign media studies , Microsoft introduced that it will lay off the next 18 months, five,000 people today involved in R & D, marketing, sales, finance,
Office 2007 Standard Product Key, legal, personnel and other departments , which these days would lay off 1,400 many people. Microsoft on Thursday launched the fiscal 2009 2nd quarter financial report. reported a Microsoft second-quarter profit of 47.1 billion U.S. dollars, down 11 %, lower than the analysis results Teacher expectations. Microsoft also said it would lay off 5,000 persons, in response to weak demand for Windows software . Microsoft also said that as the U.S. and global economic slowdown caused by the uncertainty , the company will no longer 2009 The remainder of fiscal year earnings per share forecast . Microsoft second-quarter profit from a year earlier to 47.1 billion U.S. dollars ( equivalent to USD 0.50 per share ) down to the present 41.7 million ( equivalent to a share Return $ 0.47 ). income slightly higher than the 16.4 billion a year ago , reaching 16.63 billion U.S. dollars . investigation under the previous FactSet Research , analysts on average expected , Microsoft second-quarter revenue will reach 171 Billion U.S. dollars , earnings per share are expected to reach $ 0.48 . the first time Microsoft has laid off will have to traced back to 1996 , when Microsoft in 1996 to 120 in Bothell assembly plant workers cut the floppy disk Go, and this is the first time Microsoft has a large-scale layoffs . The reason is because the floppy disk demand. Microsoft , told the New York Times : But they do not have enough busy . Spending cuts .
