Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees
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If microsoft stopped producing anything today, they would still make billions per year for many years
They would, but eventually their competition will overtake them and they will start losing customers and market share. They have to innovate at least a little bit if they wish to stay in the dominant market position that they are in.
As long as they have one employee who just constantly renames products, they will be okay.
Disagree. All they need is a small army of marketers to keep convincing executive idiots they need to have MS Office 365.
To the 9,000, don’t go back if they ask you to. Seriously.
https://archive.ph/Qm2PQ
FYI, this is old news. Layoffs have happened
Nah as far as I'm aware the CEO is not resigning and there are no leadership changes. They're mostly laying off artists from game studios, software QA, testers, devs they think they can replace with AI vibe coding etc.
Stripping the copper wiring from the walls.
That's such a good analogy
The way Microsoft products feel they really can.
I've read that windows 11 uses react (a JavaScript view framework) for parts of the UI, and that seems insane to me. JavaScript isn't a great language. It's popular because it runs in the browser. The windows desktop is not a browser.
Win11 start menu is a react native component.
Quotes from: https://winaero.com/windows-11-start-menu-revealed-as-resource-heavy-react-native-app-sparks-performance-concerns/
I hate the auto-hide feature of the start menu. It doesn't work right. I started using Bazzite/KDE, and it's done correctly there.
Well, given the goal is to turn Windows into a cloud-hosted, on-demand subscription service, it makes perfect sense.
Actually you forgot about data mining or Spyware. Windows has literally become Spyware. I would switch faster than light if anticheat didn't gatekeep Linux.
Edit: Microsoft products have literally become Spyware
It’s popular because it has an insanely low barrier to entry, so that’s what gets taught in schools and boot camps. Then that’s all Jr devs know entering the work force. Companies don’t invest in mentoring juniors and cultivating talent anymore, so as the seniors get poached, retire, or move into later stages of their career, JS is the only skill left.
TBH the software QA team wasn't doing much all these years.
TBH they fired the QA team a long time ago.
No, really, that's not a joke: They actually fucking did this.
That is definitely the C-suite
The people who make the products shit are probably in leadership, so their jobs are fine. Even if they run the company into the ground, they'll still be fine with their golden parachutes, already vast wealth, and uncanny ability to fail upward.
No that’d be the executives, you dickhead. Hey - please remember to breathe.
Oh no...
Anyway
So were SS officials, ICE agents and US cops, people who work in weapons' manufacturing, etc...
Fuck you right back.
That's your response? Do us all a favor and don't come back.
Holy shit you morons are coming out of the woodwork this week.
0x0 must be for 0 compassion and 0 IQ.