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"Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession (www.windowscentral.com)
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.

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[–] 64 points 10 months ago (23 children)

I don't understand why shareholders keep this guy's CEO he's absolutely terrible at his job. They need to go back to having an actual engineer as CEO, someone who understands what the hell is going on and doesn't keep getting distracted by the next shiny bauble.

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  • [–] 65 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I don’t understand why shareholders keep this guy’s CEO he’s absolutely terrible at his job

    What are you talking about? Under this guy's tenure the MSFT share price skyrocketed. What else would shareholders care about? He's doing an excellent job, as far as they're concerned.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    IMO, Satya isn’t the same anymore. His disabled child died, and he gave a speech about pushing forward to investors at the time but no longer cares about accessibility. Now, he’s got ai-induced psychosis so he doesn’t care about azure, office, Xbox, linkedin, GitHub, etc. Unless it has Copilot in it, because he’s invested in openAI.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago*

    Are you wishing back for Ballmer? IMO things were even worse, then. When they built a new version of Windows that was so bad they threw it away after a few years and botched together Vista as a quick save.

    Or for Gates? Who just missed and overlooked this newfangled internet thing in the 90s until they slammed the brakes and used loads of money to turn things around?

    Or the Microsoft that successfully hollowed out monopoly regulations paving the way for the tech bro style off business we now have?

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    He's generating profit, that's all that matters to the shareholders.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Is he?

    No one is buying the Xbox, quite possibly because no one can tell if it's a new generation or not. I don't think any AI company has yet posted a profit. Market share for Linux has increased in the last 2 years and most of that is from people moving away from Windows.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Are you being serious?

    Have a look at the MSFT share price in 2014 when he took over ~$45/share and now ~$470/share - of course investors love him, he's 10x their investments since he was appointed.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Share price and profit are two very different beasts and only really have a loose connection to one another. Plenty of companies lose money left and right but still have high share prices.

    The share price is just what the stock market feels a company is worth. It's almost 100% vibe-based.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not sure what your point is, the investors care about the stock price because that's their money in/money out. Lower profit could be fine if they're, say, investing 150Bn/yr into a new venture that stands to be profitable in the future (may even drive the stock price up). It's vibes based to a degree, quite a bit of analysis goes into a company's performance as well.

    FWIW their gross profit is also up more than 3x in the same time frame.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    He’s generating profit, that’s all that matters to the shareholders.

    Is he?

    Have a look at the MSFT share price

    My only point is that share price and profit are not necessarily correlated, people mix them up all the time, so I try to correct that when I see it. I'm not disagreeing with your overall point - I would agree that most investors only care about the share price.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Their business is B2B now. Nadella is focused on that, gaming is a nice side business to him, and the home user wasn't profitable enough to care about keeping.

    Right now my fortune 500 employer is all in on Microsoft, they pay for around 200,000 Microsoft business licenses and about 2/3's of those PCs also have a 365 business license, plus they have Microsoft servers with their own individual licenses in every state and almost every country. And that's just one company, think about how many companies are all in on Microsoft and you can see why B2B is what he cares about.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    Didn’t he start Azure? Like the reason MS have so much money still.

    At making shareholder value he seems pretty good at that and that’s all that matters.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    Didn't he start Azure?

    Nah, that was Dave Cutler.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Not correct either. Maybe my wording was poor, several people were there at the start of Azure.

    Nadella is the reason it’s the second largest cloud provider next to AWS.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    But he didn't "start" it, at least not according to Wikipedia

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    No. But as I said my wording was poor. I should have said Nadella made Azure the player it is today and thus how rich Microsoft are.

    That’s not nothing And it shows he makes money for shareholders. Why wouldn’t you want this guy as CEO if that’s your aim.

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