After laying off 5000 employees, Microsoft will recruit 3,000 staff for search and cloud computing
News on February 3: according to foreign media reports, Microsoft said this week that the company would continue to recruit employees in network services, search, and cloud computing.
Although Microsoft has already laid off 5,000 people, the company said that it would additionally recruit 2000-3000 posts. However, Microsoft needs to reduce overall expenditure, but the new employees will have a significant impact on strategic development.
Microsoft said Google Apps did not pose a threat to Office
CCID message on January 18th, according to foreign media reports, in Microsoft Office team the executive Spain Alex (Alex Payne) said a few days ago, that Google Apps would not pose a threat to Office. Since the launch of Google Apps, it win a lot of users. Recently, Google began to recruit sales staffs of Google Apps. In response, Payne believes that, Google Apps does not pose a threat to Microsoft Office.
Ballmer acknowledged that the lack of patient harmed Microsoft search business
On January 18th news, with Yahoo finding a new CEO, Microsoft may once again take the operation to buy Yahoo search business. However, the problem is that if now Yahoo’s search business of Microsoft acquisition trying to catch up with Google’s paid search business is not some too late. As the “Wall Street Journal,” an analysis of the article pointed out, Microsoft is not in the paid search business occuping an important position because of Microsoft itself, rather than Google.
EU opposed to Microsoft’s bundling of Internet browsers and computer operating system
According to Xinhua News Agency, it was reported on January 18th, that the European Commission issued a statement on the 17th that the Microsoft of the United States will bundle the Internet browser and Windows computer operating system, which was in violation of EU anti-monopoly law, so the EU asked Microsoft to change this form of marketing. The European Commission said the results showed, that Microsoft bundled its IE browser with the Windows operating system of its personal computers resulted a monopoly in a web browser market.
The EU also targeted IE browser and ready for heavy fines on Microsoft
It is learned that the European Commission, toward Microsoft has issued a “statement of objections.” In the statement, the European Commission has reached a preliminary consensus that the Windows bundled IE browser to curb fair competition of other browser products. In response, Microsoft said, that it was studying the statement, and ruled out the possibility of the requirements of holding hearings. Prior to that, because of the abuse of Microsoft Windows in the PC market dominance, it has been fined more than 10 billion euros.
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