Microsoft Windows Live Head Among Job Cuts

From DailyTech: Microsoft is still one of the most profitable companies in the technology industry. However, the software giant missed its earning last quarter and took aggressive action to try and prevent that from happening again.

Part of the action that Microsoft took was to announce it would be shedding 5,000 positions from its employee pool. The cuts are affecting some of the people that were key players in Microsoft's PC gaming business.

DailyTech reported last week that the full development team for the long running Microsoft Flight Simulator series had been let go. VentureBeat reports that among the cuts was Microsoft's Chris Early, the head of Game for Windows Live.

Games for Windows Live was the PC-based version of the popular Xbox Live service that lets gamers connect with other players, earn achievements, and access their gamer tag. The service is a huge hit on the Xbox.

However, with Microsoft cutting Early from its roster, PC gamers can assume that the service isn't as popular on the PC. That's not much of a shock when you consider the huge numbers of console gamers compared to PC gamers.

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