http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/14/microsoft-to-announce-major-layoffs-later-this-week-report/

Anyone has more details on when the cuts will take place and what Microsoft groups will be affected?

Announcement of layoffs ranging between 5 percent and 10 percent expected this month when the company reports its fiscal quarter. http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-layoffs-coming-analyst-says/

A billion dollars wasted on Kin, 500 phones sold and a huge amount of ground lost in the mobile space. Everything I hear about Windows Phone is negative. Leadership is shrugging its shoulders like this disaster is no big deal. Enterprise Agreement... — read more 

Nov 6 2009 - Microsoft laid off 5K in Jan/09 and now, it is letting 800 more go (globally)... Yet, they hired more thank 2k this year, they will soon hit 100k employees...

crumble, huh... come on dude, msft is going forward full force. they are kicking ass in servers, in business apps, growing online. what's crumbling here? come on...

yet another shocker from redmond, microsoft will be cutting over twenty five hundred jobs over next year. this brings us where? i think they exceeded five thousand announced job cuts. so much for the success of vista (given how bad this product is... — read more