Cut-backs at the Evil Empire force of MS

There are rumors going on about layoffs at the "Evil Empire force of Microsoft", as much as 17% of its workforce (which is a lot). It seems that they are not immune to recession and things are not going good for the strongest privative force of the Software Galaxy. The truth is that some sources from the inside pointed out that there might be a hit for a few quarters next year. They assure nothing is gonna happen in January but they also say that "anything" could be possible over the following months... certainly it seems that is not gonna be before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Vegas (Nevada), on the 15th of January, because it won't be good for them to have any bad news before it.

However these are some undeniable facts showing that things are not going really well for the Redmond giant:

• Several big customers have not renewed MS Software Assurance (SA)
  
• The whole worldwide economy is in a major slump.
• Hiring is way, way down. Except for a scattered few positions, Microsoft has almost no openings for external hires.
• One of the more likely solutions to be employed is no bonuses in 2009 reviews.
  

You can reed more about this here, written by an anonymous blogger from MS.

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