The Microsoft on
Thursday, July 30, 2015 sacked 34 of the 40 employees in the Nigerian office of
its phone division. The
sacking came 24 hours after the company’s latest Windows 10 was made available
in Nigeria and 189 other countries.
Although,
Windows 10 is now available as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1 operating
systems or with new personal computers and tablets, industry experts said it
would leave about 15 million Nigerian payments cards prone to hacking.
Employees
at the Nigerian office were silent on the matter, but a source said that the
downsising was part of the global decision of Microsoft to streamline its phone
division. The
source said the sacking was in line with the massive layoff of workers
“sweeping through the global offices of Microsoft’s phone division.”
The
Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft, Satya Nadella, had said in a memo to all
Nigerian employees in late June that the company needed to make some “tough
choices” in areas that were not working.
The
memo had stated that 7,800 jobs would be cut from the mobile division working
on Windows Phone hardware...
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