The layoffs make up around 10 percent of Microsoft’s total sales force.
Focusing on the Cloud
The Cloud’s Adding a Billion Users by 2020
The news is a sign of the important of cloud computing, which is now essential for dozens of industries, from tech to fashion to NASA’s Mars program. The cloud is only getting bigger in the next few years, as TechCo reported earlier this year: Microsoft wants in on that billion users: The company, as Bloomberg reports, called the cloud computing sector a “$4.5 trillion market opportunity” in a Monday staff email. Given the size of the Microsoft work force — the company has 71,000 U.S.-based employees and 121,000 employees internationally — these layoffs represent a comparatively small move. Image: Wikimedia
