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Microsoft will end over 18,000 jobs over the next year, destroying around half the employees at their new required phone business, Nokia. The 18,000 workers amount to 14% of Microsoft's global workforce. This is Microsoft's deepest cuts in over 39 years. It was initially thought that the firm would only decrease the amount of workers by 6,000.

In total it is said that the cuts would cost it between $1.1bn to $1.6bn (£643m to £935m) over the next year.

Employees are not notified whether they will still be working with Microsoft in the next few months. They will find out as Microsoft begins calling them on the 22nd of July.

Wow Microsoft is gay now, hope they die one in one day lol

Feel bad for the ones that'll get laid off. Scary not to have a job now a days :/

Completely agree. 18,000 is a lot of people that will have to recovery from this

Wow that sucks big time. This is why I won't work at a company that's a HUGE franchise like it because of that reason.

Lets hope MS actually gives them unemployment. We all know they can afford it

Xbox Entertainment Studios division is being closed.
For people who are curious that is the group who was going to make TV shows for Xbox, Halo series is going ahead no news on other projects. Looks like the studio was making not much profit.