Microsoft aims to cut $1bn costs a year

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Microsoft Aims for High Performance
Computing June 24 - 11:11 PM ET Nearly a
year after Microsoft announced a

Microsoft Aims for High Performance
Computing June 24 - 11:11 PM ET Nearly a
year after Microsoft announced a 06/24/2004 11:00 PM
BetaNews Jun 25 2004 3:18AM GMT

Microsoft aims to save $1B this fiscal
year

Microsoft aims to save $1B this fiscal
year 07/07/2004 09:40 AM
Microsoft Corp. customers have heard the vendor profess that its software allows them to "do more with less," but now it's Microsoft employees' turn: The company is cutting back on benefits. Microsoft plans to save nearly US$1 billion through efficiency improvements and cost-cutting in its 2005 fiscal year, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer said in his annual strategy e-mail message to employees on Tuesday. The company's new fiscal year started on July 1. Over the past three years, expenses at Microsoft have grown faster than revenue. "This is obviously not a trend we can continue," Ballmer wrote. The company's plan to save money includes better coordinated marketing, which should save hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Ballmer.

Intel chip aims to cut optical costs

Intel chip aims to cut optical costs 02/11/2004 01:48 PM
A prototype processor produced by the company could take a lot of the manual labor out of manufacturing optical equipment toward the end of the decade.

nLayers Optimization Aims to Cut Risk,
Costs

nLayers Optimization Aims to Cut Risk,
Costs 07/07/2004 11:36 AM
An innovative application optimization startup launched itself and its first product this week with a mission to bring both cost and risk reduction to IT.

IT failure costs SMEs £6k a year

IT failure costs SMEs £6k a year 02/12/2004 09:57 AM
*$&!ing computers

Stress Costs U.S. $300 Billion a Year

Stress Costs U.S. $300 Billion a Year 09/04/2004 11:12 PM

Card switching costs £1bn a year

Card switching costs £1bn a year 04/12/2005 01:41 AM
People who switch credit cards to take advantage of interest free deals are costing the industry more than £80m a month.

Back pain costs $90 billion/year

Back pain costs $90 billion/year 01/02/2004 07:13 AM
A Duke University study has concluded that back pain costs the US economy $90 billion a year.

"To put these expenses in perspective, the total $90 billion spent in 1998 represented 1 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the $26 billion in direct back pain costs accounted for 2.5 percent of all health care expenditures for that year," said lead researcher Xuemei Luo, Ph.D., who published the results of the Duke study today (Jan. 1, 2004) in the journal Spine.

OK, here's a thing: from the age of 17, right up until September 2002, I suffered from really bad back pain. I would spend a couple days a month laid up on the sofa, unable to move, and I'd go through a couple bottles of over-the-counter pain meds a month. I developed chemical burns on my back from overuse of "deep heat" patches and Tiger Balm. I saw a doctor who told me that I would likely need to have my spine fused.

Then I read this really weird, hippy-trippy book by Richard Sarno, a guy who appears to be to back pain what Atkins was to dieting a couple years back, a fringe researcher with no independent verification of his results and a slightly suspect, "They laughed at me in Vienna, I'll show them all" affect that makes it hard to take his stuff seriously.

Sarno advocates a kind of self-hypnosis or self-interrogation to relieve the mental causes of back pain, and states that it works even if you don't believe in it. Well, I tried it. 24h later, I began the single longest period of pain-free living in my adult life. I haven't been laid up in over a year now, and I take painkillers for headaches, not back-aches.

Your mileage may vary, but after more than a year of this, I'm ready to start talking about it. Like Atkins for weight loss and hypnosis for smoking cessation, Sarnoid back-therapy feels something like getting root on my body, like being able to move into user-controlled space stuff that the OS was badly mismanaging in the background. L ink

Spam costs businesses millions every
year: report

Spam costs businesses millions every
year: report 06/28/2004 03:29 AM
ZDNet Australia Jun 28 2004 7:54AM GMT

Identity fraud costs Australia AU$1
billion a year

Identity fraud costs Australia AU$1
billion a year 11/11/2003 10:17 PM
ZDNet Australia Nov 11 2003 9:28PM ET

Bin Laden Aims to Attack U.S. This Year
- NY Times

Bin Laden Aims to Attack U.S. This Year
- NY Times 07/09/2004 01:46 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 9 2004 5:41AM GMT

Apple Still Aims To Launch Europe iTunes
This Year

Apple Still Aims To Launch Europe iTunes
This Year 04/16/2004 09:09 PM
Apple said on Friday it was sticking to a plan to launch a European version of ite iTunes Music Store on the Internet this year, saying it would not rush it out until it is perfect. By Lucas van Grinsven, Reuters (via MyAppleMenu)

Bin Laden Aims to Attack U.S. This Year
- NY Times (Reuters)

Bin Laden Aims to Attack U.S. This Year
- NY Times (Reuters) 07/09/2004 12:10 AM
Reuters - Osama bin Laden, believed to be hiding along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, is directing an al Qaeda effort to launch an attack in the United States sometime this year, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed U.S. officials.

Apple Still Aims to Launch Europe iTunes
This Year (Reuters)

Apple Still Aims to Launch Europe iTunes
This Year (Reuters) 04/16/2004 10:17 AM
Reuters - Apple Computer (AAPL.O) said on Friday it was sticking to a plan to launch a European version of its iTunes Music Store on the Internet this year, saying it would not rush it out until it is perfect.

Microsoft To Cut Costs by $1 Billion

Microsoft To Cut Costs by $1 Billion 07/07/2004 02:50 PM

NHS may ditch Microsoft on costs

NHS may ditch Microsoft on costs 12/06/2003 09:04 PM
Observer Dec 6 2003 8:11PM ET

Legal Costs Cut Into Microsoft Net

Legal Costs Cut Into Microsoft Net 04/23/2004 02:41 AM
Los Angeles Times Apr 23 2004 7:12AM GMT

Microsoft 'to cut costs by $1bn'

Microsoft 'to cut costs by $1bn' 07/07/2004 07:45 AM
Microsoft is to slash costs by $1bn a year after a sharp rise in spending over the past three years, reports say.

Microsoft CFO reduces costs

Microsoft CFO reduces costs 04/29/2004 09:17 AM
Microsoft Corp. Chief Financial Officer John Connors is scaling back employee business trips as part of a 13-point plan to slice costs. "We've just got to hunker down," Connors said in a March interview at his office in Redmond, Wash. Connors said he's telling workers to eliminate one in five trips, forcing them to cancel meetings or hold teleconferences. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, 48, and Connors, 45, have stepped up efforts to reduce expenses so Microsoft can boost profit as sales growth slows. Sales grew 17 percent to $9.18 billion in the third quarter ended March 31, and profit declined because of legal costs, the company said Wednesday in a statement distributed by PR Newswire. Revenue beat the $8.66 billion average estimate of 28 investors polled by Thomson Financial.

Geographic ignorance costs Microsoft

Geographic ignorance costs Microsoft 08/20/2004 12:25 AM
Insensitive computer programmers with little knowledge of geography have cost the giant Microsoft company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost business and led hapless company employees to be arrested by offended governments. The problem has damaged the company's reputation and the "trust rating," which is seen as key to keeping the company competitive, has dropped, a senior Microsoft executive revealed on Wednesday at the International Geographers Conference in Glasgow.

Legal costs hit Microsoft profits

Legal costs hit Microsoft profits 04/23/2004 02:41 AM
BBC Apr 23 2004 7:23AM GMT

Microsoft aims high

Microsoft aims high 09/15/2004 09:48 PM
Asia Times Online Sep 16 2004 1:04AM GMT

Legal costs force down Microsoft profit

Legal costs force down Microsoft profit 04/23/2004 05:34 AM
IHT Apr 23 2004 8:56AM GMT

Legal costs dent Microsoft earnings

Legal costs dent Microsoft earnings 04/22/2004 06:43 PM
ZDNet Apr 22 2004 10:15PM GMT

Microsoft plan raises software costs

Microsoft plan raises software costs 03/20/2003 06:43 PM

Linux and Microsoft costs 'neck and
neck'

Linux and Microsoft costs 'neck and
neck' 04/05/2005 04:12 AM
silicon.com Apr 5 2005 9:00AM GMT

Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft

Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft 05/04/2004 06:25 AM
ZDNet May 4 2004 11:08AM GMT

Microsoft aims at spam, viruses

Microsoft aims at spam, viruses 11/17/2003 02:05 AM
USA Today Nov 17 2003 1:34AM ET

Microsoft rival aims at new markets

Microsoft rival aims at new markets 09/09/2004 05:21 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 9 2004 9:38AM GMT

Doomjuice Worm Aims at Microsoft

Doomjuice Worm Aims at Microsoft 02/10/2004 07:19 AM
A new worm emerges on the Internet, but there is disagreement over whether it's related to the recent MyDoom outbreaks.

Microsoft aims for 10m Xbox 360s

Microsoft aims for 10m Xbox 360s 06/22/2005 02:37 AM
BBC Jun 21 2005 11:12AM GMT

Microsoft upgrades CRM, aims at Europe

Microsoft upgrades CRM, aims at Europe 12/09/2003 06:08 PM
CRM 1.2 includes language options, simplified installation and support and improved security, and it can be installed on Windows Server 2003, Windows Small Business Server 2003, Exchange 2003 and Microsoft Office 2003.

Microsoft aims to make spammers pay

Microsoft aims to make spammers pay 12/25/2003 11:20 PM
BBC Dec 25 2003 10:45PM ET

Microsoft aims to whip up CRM market

Microsoft aims to whip up CRM market 04/26/2004 01:05 PM
CRM Assist Apr 26 2004 5:11PM GMT

Microsoft profits fall on legal costs
and fine

Microsoft profits fall on legal costs
and fine 04/23/2004 04:04 AM
Irish Examiner Apr 23 2004 8:15AM GMT

Microsoft Will Pay Legal Costs if
Technology Partners Are Sued

Microsoft Will Pay Legal Costs if
Technology Partners Are Sued 06/24/2005 03:02 PM
Microsoft plans to announce that it will pay the legal costs for any computer maker or software company that may be sued over patents based on claims against it.

Microsoft Angers Developers By Boosting
Support Costs For VB6

Microsoft Angers Developers By Boosting
Support Costs For VB6 04/02/2005 10:39 PM
Information Week Apr 3 2005 1:13AM GMT

Microsoft beats forecasts, but legal
costs hurt

Microsoft beats forecasts, but legal
costs hurt 04/22/2004 04:02 PM
The software behemoth posts fiscal third-quarter revenue that's above expectations, but earnings are dented by the cost of a fine by the European Union and a settlement with Sun.

Microsoft aims to 'shift the tide' in
war on spam

Microsoft aims to 'shift the tide' in
war on spam 11/17/2003 08:04 AM
The Register Nov 17 2003 7:41AM ET
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