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Key and hard week in Microsoft The company has announced a workforce reduction that will affect 18,000 employees and entails layoffs in good part of its divisions, including the division of operating systems, the division of devices, or the European section of Xbox. The changes, which even affect external personnel, are part of the new reorganization promoted by Nadella.

Outside the Windows universe, the news in these intermediate seven days of July has revolved around new bets from various companies in different sectors. Thus we have the entry of Amazon in the subscription reading model through Kindle Unlimited, the announcement of the future Model III electric car of Tesla, or the intention of BlackBerry to have its own mobile assistant.One more sign that the technology sector does not take vacations, and neither does Microsoft.

• Among the announced cuts we have also learned that Microsoft will close Xbox entertainment studios with the consequent anger of advertisers.
• The changes seem to have been well received by investors, as Microsoft shares reached their highest point this week of the last decade.
• During these days the people of Redmond have held their annual conference for partners and in it we have been able to see a new demonstration of the real-time translation of Skypewhich should arrive in the next few months.
• Which is sure to be coming to the UK soon is Cortana. The Windows Phone 8.1 assistant could land on English soil in less than two weeks and soon expand to China.
• Meanwhile mobile updates continue for Xbox Music and Xbox Video.
• And we finish with the arrival of the increase in space of OneDrive, which now offers 15 GB of storage totally free to its users.

And so the week ends. Ahead there are just ten days of July and a month of August that will be the preview of a last four-month period full of changes around Microsoft Here we will continue reporting and dealing to collect all the news that the Windows universe generates every week.