Microsoft Crop said that it would cut about 2850 more jobs over the next month, taking its total planned jobs cuts to 4700 or 4% of its work force.Majority of ex Nokia employees with be no longer working at the Microsoft said in May that.The company would cut 1850 jobs in its Smartphone business. Hurt by a failed $7.6 billion Nokia experiment amid growing losses in the smartphones hardware business it announced to lay off an additional 1850 jobs to cut, the tech giant said that it will cut 4800 jobs globally by 2017 as reported on Friday. Last June Microsoft announced that it will cut 7400 jobs from the Smartphone business unit .Indian born Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said a statement that they are division phone efforts where they have differentiation with enterprises that value security, manageability and consumers who value the same.He also added that they will continue to innovate across the devices and on cloud services across platforms.Almost a year ago Nadella announced that a more effective and focused phone portfolio with the business and flagship gaining prominence. Microsoft's Lumia and Windows phone strategy has failed as both sales and Windows phone market share have declined since the tech giant's mobile restructuring last year.
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