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	<title>Comments on: Microsoft Starts the Layoff Machine Again With Thousands of Cuts: Steve Ballmer's Memo to the Troops</title>
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		<title>By: Microsoft Layoffs &#8211; Cinco de Fire-O &#124; 70-620 Exam - Microsoft Questions on 70-620 Exam and Answers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Microsoft Layoffs &#8211; Cinco de Fire-O &#124; 70-620 Exam - Microsoft Questions on 70-620 Exam and Answers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Microsoft Starts The Layoff Machine Again Steve Ballmer’s Memo To The Troops Peter Kafka MediaMemo... [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Microsoft Layoffs &#8211; Cinco de Fire-O - Home Improvement</title>
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		<dc:creator>Microsoft Layoffs &#8211; Cinco de Fire-O - Home Improvement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Microsoft Starts The Layoff Machine Again Steve Ballmer’s Memo To The Troops Peter Kafka MediaMemo... [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Tech Industry News &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Microsoft Layoffs &#8211; Cinco de Fire-O</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tech Industry News &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Microsoft Layoffs &#8211; Cinco de Fire-O</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Microsoft Sacks 800 [UPDATED] &#171; Tech7.Net</title>
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		<dc:creator>Microsoft Sacks 800 [UPDATED] &#171; Tech7.Net</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Sacks 800 [UPDATED]     &#8220;We are mostly but not all done&#8221; with layoffs. So said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in May at the start of a second round of cuts [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Microsoft Prepping Layoffs 2009 Service Pack 3 &#124; John Paczkowski &#124; Digital Daily &#124; AllThingsD</title>
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		<dc:creator>Microsoft Prepping Layoffs 2009 Service Pack 3 &#124; John Paczkowski &#124; Digital Daily &#124; AllThingsD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] “We are mostly but not all done” with layoffs. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that in May of this at the start of a second round of cuts that claimed the livelihoods of some 3,000 employees. Now, six months later, the company is finishing the job. Sources tell TechFlash that Microsoft (MSFT) will make additional job reductions this week &#8212; beginning as early as today. Cuts are expected to number in the hundreds &#8212; smaller than those made in January and May, but ugly just the same. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Microsoft Layoffs: Let the Healing Begin</title>
		<link>http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090505/microsoft-starts-the-layoff-machine-again-steve-ballmers-memo-to-the-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-11431</link>
		<dc:creator>Microsoft Layoffs: Let the Healing Begin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Around 5:43 a.m. PDT, CEO Steve Ballmer sent out e-mail &#8220;Realigning Resources and Reducing Costs&#8221; to Microsoft employees announcing more [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Joe Wilcox &#187; Microsoft Layoffs: Let the Healing Begin</title>
		<link>http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090505/microsoft-starts-the-layoff-machine-again-steve-ballmers-memo-to-the-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-5721</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe Wilcox &#187; Microsoft Layoffs: Let the Healing Begin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 05:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Around 5:43 a.m. PDT, CEO Steve Ballmer sent out e-mail &quot;Realigning Resources and Reducing Costs&quot; to Microsoft employees announcing more [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Non-News From Microsoft: More Layoffs - if the Economy Tanks Again &#124; Peter Kafka &#124; MediaMemo &#124; AllThingsD</title>
		<link>http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090505/microsoft-starts-the-layoff-machine-again-steve-ballmers-memo-to-the-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-5160</link>
		<dc:creator>Non-News From Microsoft: More Layoffs - if the Economy Tanks Again &#124; Peter Kafka &#124; MediaMemo &#124; AllThingsD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 11:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the quote, from a companywide memo distributed when Microsoft (MSFT) announced its second phase of mass layoffs: As we move forward, [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Internet Marketing, Strategy &#38; Technology Links - May 7, 2009 &#171; Sazbean</title>
		<link>http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090505/microsoft-starts-the-layoff-machine-again-steve-ballmers-memo-to-the-troops/comment-page-1/#comment-4970</link>
		<dc:creator>Internet Marketing, Strategy &#38; Technology Links - May 7, 2009 &#171; Sazbean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Microsoft Starts the Layoff Machine Again With Thousands of Cuts: Steve Ballmer’s Memo to the Troo... (All Things Digital) [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Liveblogging the Steverino (Ballmer) Show at Stanford &#124; Kara Swisher &#124; BoomTown &#124; AllThingsD</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liveblogging the Steverino (Ballmer) Show at Stanford &#124; Kara Swisher &#124; BoomTown &#124; AllThingsD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 03:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] He offered the room jobs if they were smart and then gave out his email. Although he did leave out the pertinent fact that the software giant just laid off 3,000 workers earlier this week. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Mac Beach</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mac Beach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think they would be better off if they could somehow figure out a way to include Ballmer himself in the next round.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think they would be better off if they could somehow figure out a way to include Ballmer himself in the next round.</p>
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		<title>By: Microsoft Joins the Layoff Massacre at Joe Wilcox</title>
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		<dc:creator>Microsoft Joins the Layoff Massacre at Joe Wilcox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 23:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Around 5:43 a.m. PDT, CEO Steve Ballmer sent out e-mail &#8220;Realigning Resources and Reducing Costs&#8221; to Microsoft employees announcing more [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Microsoft Sends 3,000 Layoff Notices; More Cuts Possible</title>
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		<dc:creator>Microsoft Sends 3,000 Layoff Notices; More Cuts Possible</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to current employees, according to CNET. As indicated in a memo to staff from CEO Steve Ballmer, published in full by AllThingsD, the company is now almost but not quite finished the proposed 5,000 cuts. (MSFT had already made [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Tech Trader Daily - Barron&#8217;s Online : Microsoft Sends 3,000 Layoff Notices; More Cuts Possible</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tech Trader Daily - Barron&#8217;s Online : Microsoft Sends 3,000 Layoff Notices; More Cuts Possible</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to current employees, according to CNET. As indicated in a memo to staff from CEO Steve Ballmer, published in full by AllThingsD, the company is now almost but not quite finished the proposed 5,000 cuts. (MSFT had already made [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Microsoft Starts The Layoff Machine Again With Thousands Of Cuts: Steve Ballmer’s Memo To The Troops [MediaMemo] &#124; techclack.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Microsoft Starts The Layoff Machine Again With Thousands Of Cuts: Steve Ballmer’s Memo To The Troops [MediaMemo] &#124; techclack.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 16:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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