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Re:Amid layoffs, Microsofties reveal further turmoil in Redmond by city41 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @07:10PM (#1495846)
According to Wikipedia, Apple has 34k employees. Microsoft has over 100k. Maybe at that scale, 34k and 100k aren't very different, or maybe that's like night and day.
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Re:Amid layoffs, Microsofties reveal further turmoil in Redmond by Tichy on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @07:22PM (#1495879)
34K still seems a lot, but how many are really involved in developing the core products? A lot of them would probably be sales people etc?

Maybe MS would do better with 34K than 100K people...

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Re:Amid layoffs, Microsofties reveal further turmoil in Redmond by jorgeortiz85 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @07:31PM (#1495905)
Yeah, Apple probably has a lot of retail employees for their Apple Stores.
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Re:Amid layoffs, Microsofties reveal further turmoil in Redmond by city41 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @07:32PM (#1495906)
A lot of people have that opinion. Such as the Mini-Microsoft blog: http://minimsft.blogspot.com/, which is supposedly ran by an MS employee.
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Re:Amid layoffs, Microsofties reveal further turmoil in Redmond by kalid on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @07:42PM (#1495936)
Yes, and how many work in their retail stores (not sure if that's included). Every Apple store I've been to seems to have a 1:1 customer to employee ratio.
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Re:Amid layoffs, Microsofties reveal further turmoil in Redmond by rao on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:06AM (#1496622)
The range of products offered by Microsoft is huge. Multiple versions of OS, Office, VS and various websites.
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Re:Amid layoffs, Microsofties reveal further turmoil in Redmond by rbanffy on Thursday July 08, 2010 @05:27AM (#1496898)
They should slash the product line. They won't because of the lock-in loops. If they cease to offer one product line, the lock-in loop where it participates gets broken.
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