Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella postponed any comment on broadly probable job cuts at the software company, after circulating a memo to employees gifted to "flatten the organization and build up leaner business processes."
Nadella said he would address thorough directorial and economic issues for the company's new financial year, which ongoing at the opening of this month, when Microsoft news magazine wages on July 22.
"There will be many opportunities for me to talk more about our specific financial plans on the 22nd," Nadella said in a telephone conference.
Since engrossing the handset business of Nokia this spiral, Microsoft has 127,000 employees, far more than rivals Apple Inc and Google Inc.
Wall Street is having a baby Nadella to make some cuts, which would symbolize Microsoft's first major layoffs since 2009.
"With recent babble on on the Street about probable head count reductions at Microsoft it was important for Nadella to be noticeable and set an positive tone heading into the next few months, in particular on the heels of the Nokia mixing," said Daniel Ives, an psychiatrist at FBR Capital Markets.
In a 3,105-word memo sent to employees on Friday and posted on Microsoft's website, Nadella set out his vision for the company five months after taking over as CEO from Steve Ballmer.
Most clearly he described Microsoft as a "efficiency and stand company" paying attention on mobile and cloud computing, a frail advance on Ballmer's reinvention of Microsoft as a "devices and services" company, which could signal less emphasis on developed plans.
Nadella did not go into aspect about precise changes he planned for Microsoft, but signaled that change was desirable.
"Nothing is off the table in how we think about broken up our society to distribute on this core approach," Nadella wrote in the memo.
Nadella wrote that he had asked his senior leaders to "evaluate opportunities to advance their modernism processes and abridge their operations and how they work."
He did not argue in great detail personage businesses, but did say he was devoted to developing the Xbox betting platform, driving water on persistent talk that the unit might be spun off.
He did not address the losing Bing search engine openly in the memo - which some investors have called for Microsoft to ditch - but did not indicate that he was accepted wisdom of backing away from it in an interview.
"To me, Bing is a much more core efficiency equipment, it's task conclusion in its spirit," Nadella told Reuters. "That's one of the reasons why internally we get that a lot more than outwardly."
Microsoft shares rose to some extent to $41.90 on Nasdaq, and are up 12 per cent year to date on the back of transformed assurance in the company under Nadella's leadership. The stock hit a 14-year high last month, the highest since the tech-stock simmer of 2000.