Over the course of the 19th century, the word science became increasingly associated with the scientific method itself, as a disciplined way to study the natural world, including physics, chemistry, geology and biology.
In July 2014, Microsoft announced plans to lay off 18,000 employees. Microsoft employed 127,104 people as of June 5, 2014, making this about a 14 percent reduction of its workforce as the biggest Microsoft lay off ever. It will include 12,500 professional and factory personnel.
Nokia has today around 70.000 employees in Nokia Networks, HERE and Nokia Technologies units. Device business which was sold to Microsoft had 25.000 employees at the time of sale and now after these lay offs only couple thousand if even that.