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Posted in Microsoft axes 5,000 staff as Q2 profit dives 11%
Posted Thursday 22nd January 2009 21:07 GMT
Gerry
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My Two Cents Worth

Revenue per share down by 2 cents so you make your staff pay by making them unemployed as if they are to blame. It's not as if M$ have made massive losses or something. This is not a uniquely Microshaft dirty deed but par for the course for them all the same.

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