SEATTLE â Microsoft said Thursday that it planned to eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year in a shake-up intended to help the company move more quickly in the market. The cuts are the largest in the companyâs 39-year history, representing about 14 percent of its work force. Microsoft will make the deepest cuts from the businesses it acquired from the Finnish phone maker Nokia. About 12,500 of the jobs being eliminated will come from the Nokia groups, resulting from the closing of a factory in Hungary and other changes. That is about half the number of employees who joined Microsoft from Nokia a few months ago when it completed its acquisition of the companyâs mobile business. In related news, Microsoft said it would no longer make Nokia phones based on the Android operating system, switching its low-end phones to Microsoftâs Windows Phone software. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/business/microsoft-to-cut-up-to-18000-jobs.html?_r=0 http://www.informationweek.com/appl.../d/d-id/1106549?piddl_msgid=234466#msg_234466
Not surprising. Ask yourself when was the last time you owned a Nokia phone? Or the last time you've seen a family member or friend with one?
I own a Microsoft phone today, its the third one I've purchased and I think it is a very worthy competitor to all others on the market. Microsoft has a PR problem not a technology problem.
Apparently Nokia was difficult to centralize and control its data. They would not conform to NSA standards.