Microsoft Lays Off Another 800

A quick follow-up from a sub-paragraph deep down in my earlier post, Microsoft today is confirming another 800 layoffs, 200 in the Seattle area, pushing the total of jobs cut since the January announcement of 5,000 jobs cut to … 5,800.

But that’s the last of it, a Microsoft spokesman tells seattlepi.com.

Maybe until next year.

Here’s a Seattle Times story on the same subject.

And in case you missed it, here’s Daniel Lyons at Newsweek asking the question about the elephant in the room, or at least the executive suite; namely that Microsoft has been going downhill ever since Bill Gates stepped down as CEO in January 2000. It makes for interesting reading, and raises the question as to how long Steve Ballmer will be there now that Windows 7 is out.