Microsoft cuts perks with eye on bottom line...
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From the Seattle Times: Microsoft Cuts Some Perks With An Eye On The Bottom Line
These cuts are expected to save around $80 million a year. Now, I don't see this as the beginning of the end for Microsoft, but it does remind me of when they stopped stocking the Coke machine with free cans at our Enron Broadband office shortly after the closure was announced... :-)
I think it does say a couple of things, though... The company is becoming more formal and corporate, and less the free-wheeling techie haven that it's been for most of its life. And second, I wonder if the numbers are starting to show that with Longhorn too far out and software assurance contracts coming due (with very little to show for them), profits are in bigger danger than the sub-10% growth that's been mentioned already...
From the Seattle Times: Microsoft Cuts Some Perks With An Eye On The Bottom Line
These cuts are expected to save around $80 million a year. Now, I don't see this as the beginning of the end for Microsoft, but it does remind me of when they stopped stocking the Coke machine with free cans at our Enron Broadband office shortly after the closure was announced... :-)
I think it does say a couple of things, though... The company is becoming more formal and corporate, and less the free-wheeling techie haven that it's been for most of its life. And second, I wonder if the numbers are starting to show that with Longhorn too far out and software assurance contracts coming due (with very little to show for them), profits are in bigger danger than the sub-10% growth that's been mentioned already...
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