Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out an all-hands e-mail Tuesday morning saying that the company was about axe more of the 5,000 people that it said in January it would lay off by the middle of next year.

When Microsoft announced its first wide-scale layoffs ever, it immediately cut 1,400 people, leaving the rest to fret about whether they would be one of the remaining 3,600.

Ballmer's done nothing to alleviate the angst since it's unclear how many got pink slips Tuesday, what departments were hit or even what countries besides the US lost people.

His memo, which escaped into the wild, said the company would now be "mostly but not all done with the planned 5,000 job eliminations," adding that there could be further job cuts on top of the 5,000 if things get worse.

Mini-Microsoft, the anonymous blogger believed to be a Microsoft employee, has claimed that a lot of the first 1,400 were rehired and that Microsoft can't even do a layoff right.