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This lay-off is Microsoft’s way staying focused more on software and cloud solutions and hence most of the job cuts will be in the phone hardware business.

Windows 10 Mobile allows you to enter your passcode four time in a row if you get it wrong. Microsoft just announced plans to restructure its phone hardware business to better focus and align resources. A few days ago he posted a question on twitter that if there’s been a...

The result: an impairment charge of about $7.6 billion related to assets connected to its Nokia Devices and Services business acquisition. Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, said, “It’s a headache that Nadella inherited”.

Most of the jobs are within its smartphone hardware business.

Microsoft said it would narrow its focus to three types of customers: 1) business users who want strong management, security and productivity apps; 2) buyers looking for cheap phones; and, 3) users heavily invested in Microsoft’s other Windows-based products.

Last month, he announced a deal to hand over most of Microsoft’s remaining display advertising business to AOL Inc.

It is important to state that Microsoft paid $7.4 billion to Nokia for its phone hardware business as the company tried to make inroads into the market segment as growth from its traditional software business slowed.

It would cut almost 7,800 jobs, which is about 7 percent of its workforce, maximum of which will be done in the phone hardware business.

The 7,800 cuts announced Wednesday, which mainly come from smartphones, are in addition to those 18,000.

Both the Nokia and aQuantive deals were engineered by ex- CEO Steve Ballmer, who sought to compete against younger, faster-growing tech companies by expanding beyond Microsoft’s original business of making software for desktop computers. He added that the company intends to...

The San Diego layoff will see the departure of 28 senior software development engineers, 18 senior program managers and seven senior hardware engineers, based on a state filing submitted by Microsoft.

While some of Microsoft’s 1,200 Irish employs are engaged in mobile-related activities, the company’s sales, operations and software development is not expected to come in for attention with regard to the new job cuts, according to sources close to the company....

Microsoft Corporation with TICKER NASDAQ:MSFT has had its stock rating noted as “Reiterated” with the recommendation being set at “BUY” this morning by analysts at UBS. The firms issuing ratings range from the low of $38 to the high of $60. Like all other...

The impairment charge will roughly be $7.6 billion in relation to the assets that are associated with all the acquisitions done with Nokia Devices and Service (NDS).

“I am committed to our first party devices, including phones”, said Nadella in am email to Microsoft employees. In the proposed deal, Microsoft will operate more effectively and focus on smartphone business, and at the same time retaining the capacity for long-term...