Comment Re:Oh, Dear (Score 1) 532
Are you guys crazy? Microsoft has "troubles"? Microsoft is laying off 5000 people...out of 91,000. That's 5.5%, relatively light for this economy. Sony is laying off 16,000 of 185,800 people leaving it's slashes at 8.6% (incase your arithmetic isn't up to it, that's 63% more people relative to the size of the company). The company I work for (I won't mention the name) last year cut a total of 139 of 800 people including three senior executives, registering at 17.3%. Now that's a troubled company. Microsoft is running very strong. Their profit margins remain in the 20s despite the hardening economic times they continue to run without an annual net operating loss and maintain an enormous cash position. Microsoft is in no way "troubled". They're being very conservative about even being prudent, given the state of the economy. They could probably afford to -- and might benefit their shareholders if they did -- live without double the number of people they are cutting.