● 04.10.09

●● Microsoft Finds Cost-Cutting Measures: Moves Overseas

Posted in Deception, Finance, Microsoft at 1:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Microsoft’s workforce relocated and further shrunk to reduce expenditures

WHAT does Microsoft do when diplomats complain that it abandons an American workforce using fraudulent claims? Well, rather than import employees it just moves the jobs to another country where wages are considerably lower and employees are treated more poorly.

when diplomats complain that it abandons an American workforce

fraudulent claims

↺ moves the jobs

employees are treated more poorly

> Indian IT services provider HCL Technologies appears to have signed a five-year, $170 million contract with Microsoft that would employ 600 people, according to a report in the Economic Times.

More information can be found here. 600 people are affected by this.

↺ here

Microsoft will carry on pretending that it is one’s patriotic duty to support and fund Microsoft, even using bailout money (i.e. the expense of taxpayers).

even using bailout money (i.e. the expense of taxpayers)

Contrary to some reports, Microsoft keeps shrinking.

↺ keeps shrinking

> Microsoft employed 95,830 full-time workers at the end of February, down slightly from 95,943 in January.

It’s probably worse in reality because of the methods of counting and whatever definition fits these statistics. █

whatever definition fits these statistics

“Client software felt the slump in PC sales, and was further harmed by the shift to netbooks; many of these run Linux, which helps Microsoft not at all.”

–Ars Technica

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