ASSOCIATED PRESS: Microsoft’s immense struggles to get into the phone hardware business will result in a 7,800 job cuts.
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Microsoft’s immense struggles to get into the phone hardware business will result in a 7,800 job cuts.
The new cuts come on top of the 18,000 jobs that were trimmed last year and just over a year after the company made an aggressive push into the smartphone market.
The company paid $7.3 billion for Nokia’s phone business in April 2014, seeking to push rapidly into the smartphone sphere as its traditional software business slowed. Microsoft ultimately wanted to build an ecosystem that created customers that were loyal to a slew of its products, much as Apple and Google have done so successfully.
