Microsoft announced layoffs today and part of the cuts involved the company's research center in Silicon Valley, where the doors will be shut permanently on Friday



From Neowin:

Earlier today, Microsoft confirmed that it had cut an additional 2100 employees and it looks like some of those individuals were based in Silicon Valley at the company's research center. According to Derek Murray, whose tweet is posted below, his office is being shut down and the last day of operation will be tomorrow.

The office is located in Mountain View, California and has been around since 2001. According to the office's website, the lab was focused on "distributed computing and includes privacy, security, protocols, fault-tolerance, large-scale systems, concurrency, computer architecture, Internet search and services, and related theory".

  Microsoft is closing its research lab in Silicon Valley