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Re:How to be like Steve Ballmer by soofaloofa on Thursday December 03, 2015 @10:49PM (#10674474)
Microsoft now employs 118,584 people with many of them working in research laboratories. Had Gates pursued academia he could have at best accomplished a fraction of what he has.
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Re:How to be like Steve Ballmer by Polyphonie on Saturday December 05, 2015 @03:16AM (#10681277)
That's 118,584 - 7,800 employees that were laid off in July or 2015 (the 118K number was from March 2015).
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