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Supersize the pizza delivery and console the Mini-Microsoft blogger — the Redmond software giant added 10,000 jobs this year. Presumably, about 500 went to making sure Vista gets delayed on time, while a couple thousand were put on the Zune marketing team.

Seriously, what is Microsoft doing with 10,000 new hires? Do they need to staff the growing Microsoft Life division without hiring the now-useless MSN team?

Microsoft employment soars [Seattle PI]