Microsoft will be eliminating up to 3,000 jobs as part of a reorganization process that will see the software giant focus its efforts on the cloud. The goal isn’t to cut costs: it seems that the company is merely getting rid of staff who aren’t in tune with its cloud services product, Azure. Most of the changes will affect employees outside of the US.



The job cuts amount to less than 10 percent of the company’s total sales force, and about 75 percent of them will be outside the U.S., the company said. Reports from last week suggested this was going to happen, and that Microsoft was going to specifically focus on how it sells its cloud services product, Azure. Microsoft’s cloud business has been booming over recent quarters – Microsoft noted Azure sales growth of 93 percent last quarter. While Amazon has become a bigger competitor in the space, Microsoft’s restructuring is to pivot to software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure.

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