Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees : technology

[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As long as they have one employee who just constantly renames products, they will be okay.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Disagree. All they need is a small army of marketers to keep convincing executive idiots they need to have MS Office 365.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

https://archive.ph/Qm2PQ

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

FYI, this is old news. Layoffs have happened

[+] [email protected] -57 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

Stripping the copper wiring from the walls.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

That's such a good analogy

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

they think they can replace with AI vibe coding etc

The way Microsoft products feel they really can.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

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/

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago

That would be the C-suite.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

That is definitely the C-suite

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

No that’d be the executives, you dickhead. Hey - please remember to breathe.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks 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.

[+] [email protected] -75 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no...
Anyway

[-] [email protected] 82 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, fuck you.

People need an income, and they work hard to provide for their families.

Tech employees are people, too. And many of them spent years perfecting a very difficult set of skills that the market is quickly deciding isn’t as valuable as it once was, because their corporate employers regard them merely as resources to be exploited and then discarded at the first opportunity. That sucks.

It sucks whomever it happens to, be it warehouse workers, truck drivers, call center employees, retail and customer service employees, or office knowledge workers. Just because a person had made a pretty good salary doesn’t mean they haven’t still be exchanging their precious time for dollars like the rest of us, grinding away their life at a job rather than spending quality time with their loved ones and persuing their own hobbies and interests.

Seriously, fuck you dude.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

0x0 must be for 0 compassion and 0 IQ.

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