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Microsoft is cutting 2850 jobs according to a July 28th Microsoft filing the company will lay off two thousand eight hundred and fifty people by the end of the fiscal year twenty seventeen you might be thinking hey wait didn't microsoft announced it was cutting something like 2,000 jobs recently and you'd be right back in May microsoft announced it would cut 1,850 jobs those layoffs mostly affected those working on Microsoft's Lumia phone business this latest news is a new round of layoffs so these are two thousand eight hundred fifty job cuts that are in addition to the previously announced 1,850 job cuts oh and back in July 2015 the company cut 7800 jobs that's 12,500 jobs total that will no longer exist by the end of Microsoft's fiscal year 2017 so how many people with Microsoft keeping around then is it just going to be CEO Satya Nadella in an office alone with Cortana now Microsoft's filing says as of jun 30th the company employs approximately one hundred and fourteen thousand people on a full-time basis 63,000 are in the United States while 51,000 are international jobs Microsoft has not commented as to where this latest job apocalypse would happen nor what divisions will be affected that's it for this tech news update amaya's act hard and you can say on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update you