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Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If microsoft stopped producing anything today, they would still make billions per year for many years

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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    • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    To the 9,000, don’t go back if they ask you to. Seriously.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    https://archive.ph/Qm2PQ

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    FYI, this is old news. Layoffs have happened

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    [+] -70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Oh no...
    Anyway

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  • [+] 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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  • [+] -64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tech employees are people, too.

    So were SS officials, ICE agents and US cops, people who work in weapons' manufacturing, etc...
    Fuck you right back.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    they think they can replace with AI vibe coding etc

    The way Microsoft products feel they really can.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Win11 start menu is a react native component.

    Users report that clicking the Start button can spike CPU usage by 30% to 70% on at least one core, depending on the hardware configuration. The issue doesn't occur consistently across all systems, with some users noting it happens in about 50% of clicks.

    Quotes from: https://winaero.com/windows-11-start-menu-revealed-as-resource-heavy-react-native-app-sparks-performance-concerns/

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, given the goal is to turn Windows into a cloud-hosted, on-demand subscription service, it makes perfect sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    To lay off? They laid them off on Wednesday, this news is out of date. I was laid off too, fuck Microsoft and all their subsidiaries.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    After helping Israel with the Palestinian genocide. Such a great america company! I think we should trust them recording our screens to train a "personal ai".

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    And hire a ton of temporary H1B visa workers without rights.

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