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元器件交易网讯 7月18日消息，微软CEO周四宣布将裁员最多18000人，其中有12000人到13000人来自前诺基亚手机部门，而剩余的5000人将来自哪些部门？外媒mashable刊发文章对此进行了分析。作者认为，微软内部的裁员将主要来自IT、人事、市场、销售、Surface RT、Xbox娱乐工作室、IE等部门。
以下是原文摘译：
微软CEO萨提亚·纳德拉周四宣布将裁员18000人，他在给员工的备忘录中提到大多数（在12000人到13000人之间）将来自前诺基亚。
裁员表格中还剩余5000人，他们都将来自微软的各个部门。当被询问到目标时，一微软代表称他们将来自“跨职能和地域”。
这就意味着微软员工任何人有可能被裁员。
然而，现实更具体。
周四下午，Xbox负责人Phil Spencer给团队发送了一封内部备忘录，宣布新成立的Xbox娱乐工作室关闭。Recode暗示，这将裁员近200个岗位。这也意味着未来几个月微软将外包所有Xbox上的电视类型娱乐内容。
Spencer的备忘录指出，由Steven Spielberg制作的《光晕》(Halo)系列电影电视剧仍会保留，作为与“NFL on XBox”等第三方内容的互动。
这次裁员是个清晰的信号—而纳德拉想通过裁员来使微软平稳，将会裁员具体部门、项目和团队。
现在问题仍然存在：
哪个部门将会被裁，原因是什么。
我猜测所有部门都将有可能裁员，只是一些部门会比其他裁员程度更深，例如Xbox娱乐工作室，将会关门大吉。
Surface RT团队也将如此。虽然Surface 3被用户非常认可，可能是微软最成功的平板，不过这款平板将拉开微软平板混合策略可能死亡的序幕。
事实上，微软近期推出了Surface 2 mini版，不过这可能是RT机型最后的重大升级。
Skype应该是安全的，虽然我不知道微软最终是否会进行更深程度的裁员。2010年，它拥有近500名员工。2011年，微软将其收购，裁掉了少量高管。
2009年，鲍尔默裁员了5000名微软员工。人事、IT、销售、财务和市场部门收到冲击。他甚至裁员了研发部门。今天微软研发最少有850名员工，他们负责Xbox Kinect等尖端产品的开发。我不认为纳德拉会动这个部门，不过作为消费产品，一些项目将会被调整。
其他的部门，比如销售、IT和人事可能会再次受到冲击。
我的确不知道裁员触及微软的任何硬件团队，那些并没有生产Xbox或者Surface但是生产鼠标和键盘的员工是否将会成“刀下鬼。”
大点的目标，可能是Internet Explorer团队。浏览器的占有率过去10年平稳下滑，即使微软试图简化和加强它。
而随着iPad版Office的推出，现实是Office使微软挣钱而IE没有，所以为什么要掏力不落好呢？我预计深度裁员将发生在IE团队。
不会触及的部门将包括Windows团队、Windows Phone团队、Bing、Outlook和OneDrive团队。（元器件交易网刘光明 摘译）
外媒原文如下：
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced some 18,000 job cuts on Thursday, he noted in a memo to employees that most of them (between 12,000 and 13,000) would come from the former Nokia.
That leaves 5,000 cuts on the table, all of which have to come from various parts of Microsoft. When queried about targets, one Microsoft representative said they would come “across functions and geographies.” That could mean anyone and anything within the Microsoft sphere.
The reality, though, turned out to be somewhat more specific.
By Thursday afternoon, Xbox head Phil Spencer sent his team an internal memo (obtained by The Verge) that announced the shuttering of the still-new Xbox Entertainment Studios. Recode estimated that will be a cut of nearly 200 jobs, meaning that Microsoft will outsource all TV-style entertainment content scheduled to run on Xbox in the coming months.
Spencer"s memo notes that the Steven Spielberg-produced Halo Television series is still on, as is any interactive third-party content like “NFL on Xbox.”
The cut, though, is a clear indication that while Nadella wants to flatten the giant company by cutting some middle management, there will be cuts that target specific departments, projects and teams.
The question remains, which departments and why.
Taking inventory
While I suspect that virtually every department in Microsoft will see staff reductions, some will be much deeper than others — and, in cases like Xbox Entertainment Studios, will result in departmental death.
The Surface RT team is one such example. While Surface Pro 3 has been well received and could be Microsoft"s most successful tablet, the slab that kicked off Microsoft"s tablet hybrid strategy is likely dead.
It"s true that Microsoft recently introduced a cellular version of Surface 2, but that may well be the last significant update the RT models will see.
For those who do not remember, Surface RT is a Windows tablet running an ARM chip (popular in mobile phones) and something called Windows RT. It"s the only tablet version of Windows that can run on an ARM chip. The company built so it could have a relatively high-performance, low-energy tablet solution that could still handle specially build versions of Windows and Windows-friendly applications like Office 2013.
Surface Pro 3, though, proves that Microsoft can finally have it all. It"s light, thin, has 10 hours of battery life and runs on an Intel CPU. As a result, it"s a full-blown Windows PC – and a tablet, too.
Many of the people who built Surface RT also built Surface Pro 3, but anyone who works on RT hardware, the RT OS and the promotion of the platform is surely at risk.
Skype should be safe, though I do wonder if Microsoft will finally make deeper cuts in the company. It had roughly 500 employees in 2010. When Microsoft acquired it in 2011, it cut a handful of executives. Will Microsoft cut deeper now?
In 2009, Steve Ballmer laid off 5,000 Microsoft employees. HR, IT, sales, finance and marketing took hits. He even cut into research and development. Today Microsoft Research has at least 850 employees (most Ph.D"s), and they"re responsible for the development of cutting-edge products like Xbox Kinect. I don"t see Nadella gutting the group, but some trimming for projects that may never see the light of day as consumer products is likely.
Those other departments, sales, IT and HR will probably get hit again, too. A smaller workforce needs fewer support personnel, though I suspect the cuts won"t be deep since Microsoft is probably killing all three groups in Nokia and using Microsoft"s teams to support the remaining Nokia employees.
I do wonder if any of Microsoft"s hardware team, not the people who produce Xbox or Surface, but the ones churning out mice and keyboards might come under the knife. With the rise of tablets and even laptops, the demand for standalone keyboard mice is falling and demand for add-ons like tablet keyboards is being met by companies like Logitech.
A larger target, though, might be the Internet Explorer team. The browser"s share has steadily fallen over the last decade, even as Microsoft sought to streamline and strengthen it. The team"s steely lead Dean Hachamovitch left late last year and its new head, Sam George, held out hope at the Build conference for a reinvigorated IE, by broaching the possibility of cross-platform support. Put another way: Internet Explorer on an iPhone.
With the introduction of Office for the iPad, this sounds like a distinct possibility, but the reality is that Office makes Microsoft money and Internet Explorer does not, so why make that kind of sweat equity investment? I expect deep cuts in the IE team.
All safe
Untouchables (in a relative sense) include the Windows team, Windows Phone Team, Bing (yes, Bing), Outlook and OneDrive.
I"m certain I got a least some of these wrong, but we"ll know the painful facts in due course.
