Microsoft for the first time in its history of more than 33 years, could be planned cuts its payroll from 10 employees to 17%, as can be read at InternetNews, which means it could be possible that up to 15,000 employees the current payroll total of 90.000 employees that Microsoft could leave the company this coming January 15.
As reported in ArsTechnica, the two divisions that would focus the majority of the cuts would be MSN (Microsoft Network), the Internet division of Microsoft products and Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Speculations are that MSN would be sold to Yahoo!, The source of this speculation is the news portal technology Silicon Alley Insider. According to the same source of the Xbox division could be one of the least affected by staff cuts.