What do you think laying off your workforce does? These are the people who produce the things that make money
For a clear cut example, Microsoft and gaming. They lay off entire studios the moment they release a hit
It costs like 18 months+ of salary to replace a role like that, and you’ll have to pay them more. It’ll make you a bit more money next quarter… But in 2-5 years when there’s no new game?
Microsoft is dismantling itself to keep “doing well”. That’s my point
Their gaming division keeps acquiring and killing game studios. They’re killing off consoles, instead they’re going to sell prebuilds running windows. They’re scaling it all way back and releasing their exclusives, letting steam run the infrastructure, and milking all of their current IP, but not really making more
They’ve ended support for a ton of different product lines. Azure is a mess. Their desktop market share is falling too.
They’re all in on AI at this point, literally every tool they offer has it now. It’s not even opt in, it doesn’t require an account anymore… They’re desperate to inflate the numbers so they can project growth a little longer
What do you think happens when you continuously lay off your workforce and kill projects? When you stop actually doing things, and run a company based on speculation?
Microsoft for 8 years now is a company that sells Linux and opensource.
Non of their divisions you mentioned were profitable for many years now(especially Windows), just look at their yearly reports. Only logical to get rid of them. Don’t agree with your Azure statement, don’t mind me, numbers don’t agree with it.
I don’t get why you wrote so much about gaming, Microsoft never was a gaming company. And frankly nothing important for gamers was lost with them buying those empty shells of game developer companies, then shutting them down.
I can agree on the AI hype especially with recent github news. But those are recent, we’ll have to see if that was bad or good decision.
What do you think laying off your workforce does? These are the people who produce the things that make money
For a clear cut example, Microsoft and gaming. They lay off entire studios the moment they release a hit
It costs like 18 months+ of salary to replace a role like that, and you’ll have to pay them more. It’ll make you a bit more money next quarter… But in 2-5 years when there’s no new game?
Microsoft is doing pretty well so I wouldn’t call it “dismantling”, it seems to be working for them.
Microsoft is dismantling itself to keep “doing well”. That’s my point
Their gaming division keeps acquiring and killing game studios. They’re killing off consoles, instead they’re going to sell prebuilds running windows. They’re scaling it all way back and releasing their exclusives, letting steam run the infrastructure, and milking all of their current IP, but not really making more
They’ve ended support for a ton of different product lines. Azure is a mess. Their desktop market share is falling too.
They’re all in on AI at this point, literally every tool they offer has it now. It’s not even opt in, it doesn’t require an account anymore… They’re desperate to inflate the numbers so they can project growth a little longer
What do you think happens when you continuously lay off your workforce and kill projects? When you stop actually doing things, and run a company based on speculation?
Eventually, the bubble pops.
Microsoft for 8 years now is a company that sells Linux and opensource.
Non of their divisions you mentioned were profitable for many years now(especially Windows), just look at their yearly reports. Only logical to get rid of them. Don’t agree with your Azure statement, don’t mind me, numbers don’t agree with it.
I don’t get why you wrote so much about gaming, Microsoft never was a gaming company. And frankly nothing important for gamers was lost with them buying those empty shells of game developer companies, then shutting them down.
I can agree on the AI hype especially with recent github news. But those are recent, we’ll have to see if that was bad or good decision.