Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a memo to all staff in late June that the company needed to make some “tough choices” in areas that aren’t working. Now, it’s announced that 7,800 jobs will be cut from the mobile division.
Satya Nadella said in an email to all staff:
“We are moving from a strategy to grow a standalone phone business to a strategy to grow and create a vibrant Windows ecosystem including our first-party device family,” Nadella said. “In the near-term, we’ll run a more effective and focused phone portfolio while retaining capability for long-term reinvention in mobility.”
The news follows Microsoft culling other divisions; it sold some of Bing Maps’ assets to Uber and its display advertising business to AOL.
Today’s job cuts also follow Microsoft parting ways with ex-Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and the merge of the hardware and software businesses into a single unit.
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