Data for: local time on January 22, Microsoft held a press conference in the United States, officially released Windows 10 Consumer Preview.

BEIJING, July 9, according to "The Wall Street Journal" reported that Microsoft (Microsoft Co., MSFT) on Wednesday (8th) said it will lay off up to 7,800 people, and Nokia (Nokia) $ 7.6 billion write-down of business as the company's restructuring ailing part of the phone hardware business.


Microsoft said it will record restructuring charges of 750 to 850 million US dollars in. The company expects these initiatives to be substantially completed by the end of this year.

Microsoft recently warned that planned in the smart phone business and other hardware department to cut costs. Last year, the beleaguered Nokia department has announced layoffs of thousands of people, has become the largest in Microsoft's history of layoffs.

According to another report, on June 30, Microsoft and America Online announced a formal cooperation agreement on decades of advertising. Under the agreement, AOL will be responsible for selling direct significant on Microsoft products, mobile and video advertising. This means that Microsoft will aggressively quit advertising.