Microsoft axed 18,000 jobs from the unit last July – the deepest cuts in the company’s history. “In the near term, we’ll run a more effective and focused phone portfolio business while retaining capability for long-term reinvention in mobility”. The...
The company paid $7.3 billion for Nokia’s phone business in April 2014, seeking to push rapidly into the smartphone sphere as its traditional software business slowed. The job cuts represent about 6% of the total work force of the company, and will be targeted mainly at the...
During a San Diego Comic-Con panel yesterday, Fergusson responded to a question about why Microsoft and The Coalition aren’t compiling all of the Gears games together, similar to Halo: The Master Chief Collection, according to Gamespot. However, the bundle is the new...
There weren’t many Microsoft-related events in the news this week, but the firm will probably be hoping to move swiftly on from those that did hit the headlines.
Only slightly more than a year since acquiring Nokia as the cornerstone of its mobility strategy, Microsoft Corp. announced on Wednesday that it is drastically reducing its staff in that division and taking a multi-billion dollar hit in writing off its assets. Microsoft will...
The restructuring is expected to cost another Dollars 750-850 million. Moreover, CEO Satya Nadella said that Microsoft’s smartphone portfolio would be streamlined, from now on including only three types of devices: value phones, business phones, and flagships. It said it...
It’s numbered 10158 and may not make to participants of the Insiders program, who will instead get a 1016x build later on. The new browser is set to replace the legacy of the once popular Internet Explorer.
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Most companies have a mission statement of some sort but it can be easy to overlook just how important they are until you see a glaring example of one gone wrong – Satya Nadella’s latest offering is exactly that.