Microsoft Axes 1400 Jobs
- Scribbled on January 23rd, 2009 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News, Microsoft Xbox 360, PC, Simulations
GameDaily is reporting that Microsoft has fired 1,400 of a planned 5,000 jobs, mostly in the Zune, Windows Mobile and Q&A divisions, in addition to some in the Xbox division, including Gamerscore Blog.
Hardest hit was “a large portion of the staff at ACES Studio, which develops the Flight Simulator franchise, has been axed. The studio was also working on Microsoft Train Simulator 2 and was responsible for Microsoft ESP, a unique “visual simulation platform” based on Flight Simulator X technology. The future of these product lines remains up in the air.”
This follows news that Sony has to cut $2.8B in cost by March 2010, as the global recession continues to ravage the business world.
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I can’t imagine that Microsoft would kill off the #1 consumer flight simulator software. A couple of years ago there was talk of maybe making an xbox 360 version.
If they kill their flight sim software however, this would be a big gain for the makers of the only other PC/Mac simulator I am aware of, Xplane.
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Those programmers must be hemmorrhaging the borg. Low yield. FSX performs as if it was written in javascript.
Xplane 9 flies smooth.