Microsoft cut 1,850 jobs from its global workforce and make a restructuring that will cost the company US $ 950 million, of which US $ 200 million are to cover severance.
In a statement released Wednesday, the company based in Redmond, Washington, says most of the redundancies will be made before the end of the fiscal year this year; the rest will be done before July 2017.
Some 1,350 of the jobs affected are in the labor force Microsoft in Finland, where were located the offices of Nokia, a company that Microsoft bought for US $ 7.200 million in 2014. last week, Microsoft sold its low-end phones and the rights of the Nokia brand FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of the manufacturer Foxconn, HMD and Global consortium for a sum of US $ 350 million.
“We are focusing our efforts on mobile phones to a place where we have differentiation – with companies that prioritize security, manageability and capabilities with Continuum, and consumers who prioritize the same”, he said in the statement Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. “We will continue to innovate with different devices and our cloud services across our mobile platforms.”
The cut of 1,850 jobs other 4,500 jobs eliminated adds that relate to the sale of the division low-end phone.
in July, Nadella said Microsoft will reduce the number of phones to focus on fewer devices for fans, regular users and customers in the business industry. The latest handsets from Microsoft were the Lumia 650, Lumia 550, Lumia 950 and 95o XL; of the latter, Juan Garzon, senior editor of CNET in Spanish, said the XL 950 is a cell that does not meet expectations.
Windows Mobile still has life
In addition to the various comments of executives from Microsoft that keep alive the hope Windows 10 Mobile and new smart phones by the system manufacturer operating most used in the world, rumors also suggest that 2017 will be known in at least a couple of cellular company.
ZDNet sister site CNET and CNET in Spanish, looks to be in the spring of next year when Microsoft announced a small group of cells would be launched under the Surface brand to build on the success of the tablets homonyms.
Windows Central, a specialized Microsoft topics and the area of mobile site from the same company, has its own report citing own sources but that coincides with what was said by ZDNet. Windows Central speaking of at least three phones Microsoft for next year.
Microsoft has demonstrated technology that would help attract consumers. The research arm a few weeks ago Microsoft unveiled a smartphone that reacts and acts based on movements on the screen without the need for contact between the screen and the user’s hand. Also, the liquid cooling would also be something new in Microsoft phones.
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