Few days ago, Microsoft has cut total 6000 jobs from its Nokia Handset section; it was big news since it was the largest cuts of jobs in the 39 years history of the company. In that press conference Satya Nadella, the CEO has also declared that soon they will make some alteration in their XBOX entertainment department as well which is responsible for XBOX television programming. Yesterday, it was officially announced that Microsoft has closed its XBOX entertainment department. This immediate shut down will leave 18000 people unemployed. Most of them work in branch located in California and Vancouver.
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Nadella has signed a long letter which praises and supports XBOX at the same time describe its significance to the company. The only thing which was not presented in that memo was any reference or mention of XBOX original television programming. The reports say that XBOX entertainment studios were going through a tough time due to its disorganized ways of working. The rapid change of executives in that studio is considered to be the cause of this situation. Firstly CEO Steve Ballmer hired Nancy tellem as an executive in 2012 but Steve himself said good bye to the company after a year of hiring. Almost immediately Steve departure, Don Mattrick also resigned from his post. It puts a question mark on the entire management of the company.
It is also heard that they would not end the “Halo” series even after the closure of XBOX entertainment studio.