Most of the job cuts will be in the phone business, the company stated. Last year, he let go of 18,000 employees, mostly working under Nokia’s devices and businesses. The company remained failed to alter the Windows Phone operating system, running on its handsets, into a vital substitute to the two major mobile platforms, Android from Google and iOS from Apple.
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Microsoft’s current CEO, Satya Nadella, stated that the company will now begin to focus on a broader “ecosystem” of products.
For Microsoft, the last month or so has been monumental in affixing the cloud-first, mobile-first mantle to every aspect of its business and for shedding operations that didn’t fit with its new knitting.
The job cuts amount to more than 6 percent of Microsoft’s global work force.
More bad news for Microsoft.
Last month, Microsoft announced a shakeup of top management including the departure of Stephen Elop, the ex- Nokia chief who joined the United States tech company as part of the acquisition. Whatever phone models it retains will be designed to build business for its software and services and to extend its mobile ecosystem.
Microsoft had about 118,000 employees worldwide at the end of March, according to its website, with about half in the US. The main idea is to have a common interface for its customers.
After this fresh round of job cuts, Nadella said that it is not required to focus on phone efforts in the near term while driving reinvention.
Post its acquisition of Nokia previous year in a $7.2 billion deal, Microsoft had aimed to become a dominant player in the smartphone market. “We plan to narrow our focus to three customer segments where we can make unique contributions and where we can differentiate through the combination of our hardware and software”.
CEO Satya Nadella called it quits on Microsoft’s efforts to be a mobile phone company, cutting 7,800 jobs and writing off $7.6 billion dollars related to the purchase of Nokia back in September 2014.
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Windows 10 for mobile devices is scheduled for a release late this year, although it will not receive a simultaneously launch alongside the desktop and tablet version of Windows 10. The company’s employee strength in India could not be ascertained.
