What Thousands of Job Vacancies Say About Microsoft
By Tom Gara
- Bloomberg
What did they come up with? Here’s a few intriguing details:
- Expect much better streaming video
services in the next-generation Xbox console, expected to be out later
this year. “A combination keyword search of ‘streaming video’ and ‘Xbox’
yielded four dozen open positions,” Griffin wrote. Hooking up
televisions to the world of the internet is still a fragmented market
and one that nobody seems to have totally cracked yet, and it looks like
Microsoft wants to make sure its next Xbox is competitive with all the
other streaming media boxes out there.
- Microsoft has four times as many jobs
available in Germany (136) than France (33). In fact, Microsoft has more
openings in Israel (39) than all of France.
- No advertisements could be found for
hardware-related jobs in the Windows Phone division, “an interesting
result if Microsoft had chosen to develop a branded phone,” Griffin
wrote.
- Search is still a big focus for new
talent: there were 249 job openings working on the Bing search engine,
compared to 66 for Office (and no search results at all for Mac Office).
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6 for Office (and no search results at all for Mac Office).
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