The word on the street today is that Microsoft are about to lose 15,000 of their 90,000 workforce.
It doesn't seem to be an official story yet but it is being widely reported (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/4075340/Microsoft-rumoured-to-be-planning-mass-job-losses.html for example). I was a bit surprised by this story. I would have thought that Microsoft were doing okay financially. They certainly seem to have money in the bank judging by their shopping list last year. And they are hardly having to discount their software much.
