Microsoft put an end to Nokia X, a series of smartphones that use a modified version of the Google Android operating system.
The X
online experience was being developed by Nokia prior to the landing of Microsoft, I finally decided to make the sale Several models just now withdraw them and turn them into Windows Phone.
The decision, according to The Verge , further comprising the output of new Asha phones with connection capabilities Internet focused on a middle segment.
“We intend to change product designs selected to become X Nokia Lumia with Windows products,” said Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO to also announce 18,000 layoffs the company.
The firm will focus on a strategy for the “establishment of a market for Windows Phone”, the mobile operating system of Microsoft, explains his side Stephen Elop , former president of Nokia now in charge of the activities of Microsoft hardware, in a separate mail.
Microsoft announced Thursday that it will cut 18,000 jobs worldwide workforce over the next year, most as a result of the integration of the newly acquired unit Nokia, the largest job cuts in its history.
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A press notes that the decision is part of a “restructuring plan to simplify aligning their operations and Nokia handsets and business services to the general company strategy “.
The cuts represent about 14% of Microsoft’s total workforce of about 127,000 employees.
Nadella said in an email to employees that “difficult but necessary” layoffs are part of a plan to provide a new strategic direction to the U.S. technology giant.
“The first step to build the appropriate organization to our ambitions is to realign our workforce. Importantly, although we are eliminating positions in some areas, are adding jobs in other strategic areas, “he adds.
Microsoft completed the acquisition of Nokia’s phone unit in April, in a move that strengthened its position in mobile phones, at a cost of 7,500 million.
So far, the biggest job cuts made by the computer giant had occurred in 2009 when 5,800 people were laid off.
The new boss of Microsoft, who took office in February, insists that “the cloud (data services in the cloud or on-line) and the mobile sector must be first” to catch up with respect to Apple and Google rivals.
executive wants to proceed quickly and the bulk of the layoffs will occur in the next six months.
Jack Gold, a specialist in the technology sector analyst notes that “a readjustment of the era (the president of Microsoft Steve) Ballmer to Nadella was” occurs.
“Ballmer was very interested in appliances, wanted to be the next Apple,” while his successor seeks rather “focus on products and services and not compete with manufacturers” of PCs using Microsoft programs.
The exact distribution of the cuts was not detailed. But the production of phones will be reorganized and concentrated essentially in Hanoi, Vietnam, with a small part in Beijing and Dongguan in China. The plant Komaron, Hungary, will be closed, said Elop.
design teams will be held in Salo and Tampere in Finland, with reductions in other plant in that country as well as in Beijing and San Diego in the U.S..
Microsoft close its studies to create original television to Xbox consoles as part of a restructuring of labor forces.
The company clarified that projects initiated by Xbox Entertainment culminate studies, but the unit created to carry the console utility beyond the gaming world will end in the coming months.
According parts of this information leaked on the internet, the president of Xbox Phil Spencer told his team: “We will continue expanding our offering in the console innovating the television experience through monthly updates” on Xbox One
Ongoing programs include, among others, a documentary about the birth and demise of video game pioneer Atari.
news that Xbox studies emerged Entertainment will close shortly after Microsoft announced in June that sales of its Xbox console One doubled.
This increase is attributed to a selling price of $ 100 less than the original, because the console also sold without the Kinect motion sensor.
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