Comment 992 for bug 1

Microsoft slashes up to 5,000 jobs
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/technology/microsoft_jobs/

Excerpt: "Software maker Microsoft announced Thursday it will cut up to 5,000 jobs in the next year and a half, or 5.5% of its global workforce, citing further deterioration of global economic conditions. The company also posted lower fiscal second-quarter earnings that missed analysts' forecasts. Microsoft will slash 1,400 positions immediately, with the rest of the cuts coming by June 2010. The company said it will save about $1.5 billion in operating expenses and $700 million in 2009 capital expenditure."

I note that http://www.thestreet.com/story/10459205/1/microsoft-misses-will-slash-jobs.html specifically mentions netbooks as a contributing factor.

Keep up the pressure on the OEMs; we need Linux as an option on the netbooks (and Ubuntu specifically, of course ;)

And keep up the good work; we need to be able to have perfect 'just working' installs on them for machines that are not specifically Ubuntu preloaded (e.g. Acer Aspire One)