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To: tejek who wrote (445040)	1/5/2009 4:28:25 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

Probably BS... MSFT has money to burn. --------------------------------------------------- Microsoft planning big layoffs for January? Posted by Jonathan Skillings Font size Print E-mail Share 50 commentsYahoo! Buzz Mark January 15 in your calendar: Rumors of layoffs at Microsoft peg that as the day the bad news will come. The latest to report on the possibility of layoffs at the software giant is the blog Fudzilla, which puts the number of job cuts at 15,000, or nearly 17 percent of Microsoft's worldwide operations. The January 15 date is a week before Microsoft's second-quarter earnings report, scheduled for January 22. Microsoft also has a briefing for financial analysts planned for January 8 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with the headliner listed as Robbie Bach, president of the entertainment and devices division. news.cnet.com