As the second comment on that story notes, this was actually NOT the layoff memo: the bad news had already come in a short-and-to-the-point memo from the Microsoft CEO to the company as a whole. He flat out announced, in the 2nd paragraph, that Microsoft was cutting 18,000 jobs across the entire company and that 12,500 of them were coming from the Nokia division - mostly in the existing phone factories.
This memo was a follow-up from the head of the Nokia division discussing the future plans for the division, including what products it would be concentrating on, the reason for that, and where they would be built.
IMHO, not saying anything about the lay-offs until the 11th paragraph of a lengthy memo is rather less noteworthy than the fact that the reorganization plan apparently involves Microsoft "driving phone sales volume" by lowering manufacturing costs through "production efficiencies" that in some unspecified way are achieved by moving most of their phone manufacturing from the US and Europe to China and Vietnam... Gee, I wonder exactly
how Microsoft expects to save money with those moves?
