Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Where are the Micro

Currently, over on Mini-Microsoft;s virtual h2o cooler weblog, word is swirling about which teams at Microsoft are bearing the brunt of the five,000-person layoffs announced on January 22.I;m hearing from my sources that the Amusement and Gadgets (E&D) unit — the group that is responsible for Xbox, Zune and Windows Mobile — is being hit using the bulk with the immediate 1,Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Stude/nt,400-person cuts. (I have no specifics about how this will affect Microsoft;s product roadmap, but stay tuned.)Anonymous commenters on Mini;s weblog claim the Online Services and Microsoft Business unit (the home of Office and Dynamics CRM/ERP) are bearing some of the cuts. One said that Global Foundation Services, under Debra Chrapaty, will be cutting some jobs. For its second quarter for FY 2009, Microsoft;s Online Services unit reported an operating income loss of $471 million, compared to $247 milion for the same three-month period in FY 2008.One anonymous poster said that Windows Engineering chief Steven Sinofsky sent out a memo this morning saying that no one in the Windows client team will be cut (in spite of the Client division;s eight percent drop in revenues in the second fiscal quarter that was announced today).(Note: Folks on Mini;s weblog are claiming they are hearing about the cuts via e-mail from their individual managers. But there is no way of knowing if these reports are actually from real Microsoft employees, as most remain anonymous.)Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, during his earnings call with press and analysts today,Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, told company watchers that Microsoft won;t be shrinking in its fiscal 2010 (which begins July 1), but Microsoft is “putting the brakes on” spending and hiring.Ballmer noted that even though Microsoft is cutting five,000 jobs more than the next 18 months, it will be “adding a few thousand jobs back… like in search.” (So much for those who thought Microsoft might/should get out with the search business and refocus its attention on its older, core businesses….)Ballmer also said Microsoft will be cutting outside contractors as deeply,Buy Office 2010, if not far more so,Office Professional Plus 2007, than it is cutting internal employees. The 5,000-jobs-cut figure does not incorporate any of the outside vendors employed by many Microsoft business units, but cuts will be coming there, too,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, Ballmer said.