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.
Similar to my answer over How many engineers work on Microsoft Office? It's been a while since I heard this number, I seem to remember that in engineering/product, it was something like 5,000 total. Truth is, however, it's a really tough thing to answer... i.e., do we include Windows Server? how about Windows Live?