Maybe don’t release an operating system that cannot be installed in a lot of computers?
Take note. It’s never enough, no matter how much you give.
Do more with less.
In good times and bad.
Work your wage.
Microsoft has/had good wages.
“We’re entering FY26 with clear priorities in security, quality, and AI transformation, building on our momentum and grounded in our mission and growth-mindset culture,” Hood wrote, mentioning Nadella’s email. “Both the pace of change and customer expectations are continuously accelerating.”
Hood’s email, notably, didn’t mention Microsoft’s recent workforce cuts, which have exceeded 10,000 this year even as profit swells. Nadella’s email last week attempted to explain this “seeming incongruence” as the “enigma of success.” Some employees weren’t satisfied with the explanation.
These people get paid so much for spouting this utter bullshit every day. I hope they have moments when they realize the hollowness of what they do.
customer expectations are continuously accelerating
Just make a functional OS that doesn’t get in user’s ways. Those are the expectations.
They know every single word is hollow. Eat it and rejoice peasant. Are you not filled?
“The enigma of success” whoever came up with that line has truly mastered the art of auto-fellatio.
Publicly traded companies have to continually make more money than they did last month, last quarter, same time last year.
Failing to do so means they are somehow “losing” money that is “rightfully owed” to them and the stock market punishes them.
It doesn’t matter if you’re profitable or not, so long as you’re continually making more money.
It goes a layer further than that even. If the rate at which that growth is happening isn’t itself growing then investors start getting nervous.
They actually have a legal obligation to maximize profits. It’s insane.
Technically they don’t - it’s a lie told often by CEO. But its a lie. https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Fiduciary-Duties-of-the-Board-of-Directors.pdf
Yeah, except for Tesla, how the fuck man.
I’ll assume that is a rhetorical question? I mean, it’s obvious why Tesla has been going off a cliff and continues doing so
It was 10x overbloated at the least, it’s CEO is publicly a nazi, most claims that Tesla can do were all lies for over a decade now, the only new design it came up with is the cyber truck garbage container, the quality of all the cars is shit (even though they’re overpriced) with the cybershit being literally more explosive than a Ford Pinto, and now there are way WAY cheaper options competing with Tesla. Then add to that that Tesla just decided to give the CEO 26 some billion dollars because that is apparently okay to do during a shitshow like this
Anyone still investing in Tesla gets what they deserve, you’re an idiot if you do
Mmhmm compare that with the sales numbers, then compare against any company in history which has had a similar sales pattern for a publicly traded company.
- cloud services exceeded $75 billion
- Office productivity software and LinkedIn, delivered $33.11 billion in revenue
- Personal Computing unit, which encompasses Windows, search advertising, devices and video games, totaled $13.45 billion
Writing is on the wall. Xbox and Windows made money, but a fraction of what Office and enterprise services made.
Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.
Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.
Isn’t Linux mostly used for cloud services though?
Xbox is actively being dropped from Target and Walmart, but it doesn’t help that the push is for digital games with no physical presence in stores.
Xbox should’ve been the prestige product for Microsoft (just like Logic/Final Cut for Apple) but Xbox itself depleted any prestige it ever accumulated over the last few years.
These people are fucking insane, Greed is a sickness and with Trump in the white house the disease is absolutely flourishing.
At what point will we look at these numbers with skepticism? When not one worker is left who can afford their services nor one customer left who wants anything to do with their utterly shit “products” - but they still blow out the quarter with 100 billion? At what point will society recognize that this money can’t possibly represent anything actually real? Will it matter if all of us starve to death and only billionaires are left if the Microsofts of the world will still be able to post 200 billion dollar “profits”?
I’m actually curious. Because I personally think that’s increasingly what all this is. Fake as shit. Some combination of algorithms, cryptocurrency, dark pools and I dunno, the Illuminati I guess.
I wouldn’t say it’s fake, it’s the money other companies steal from their workers by not paying a fair wage being given to Microsoft to burn at the pyre of ai.
I mean, I don’t disagree that that’s historically what it’s been. But increasingly, it seems like record profits just keep going through the roof no matter what. And record stock market numbers. And record everything. Nothing goes down, not substantially. Negative news seems to have no (net) effect anymore.
It’s because they’re concentrating all the wealth. The wealth in the US used to be far more distributed, with the majority existing in the large middle class. Reagan started the policy by Republicans to pass laws and regulations designed to benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyone else, and then Clinton got the Democrats on board with the same strategy. We’re approaching the end game now where the middle and lower classes are nearly bled dry and the rich will start cannibalizing each other to be the last fattest rat in the garbage pile while the entire US economy collapses around them. Be on the lookout for the smarter rats to start fleeing the ship by transferring as much wealth as they can into foreign assets that will survive the collapse of America.
In theory the line should go up, population increases, technology allows us to become more efficient, inflation etc. That said what’s going down is at least the standard of living, employment, adjusted wages. Personally I’d put money on the AI bubble popping and crashing the market eventually but who knows how long that’ll take
Societal collapse. Greed has won.
Very happy to see my employer slowly moving away from their shitty products.
All they’re good for is stress, frustration, and justifying the jobs of old Sys Admins that sit in ivory towers.
The rest of the world is moving on. I challenge them to show growth next year.
God I can’t wait to get out of the grind.
I’m over halfway to freedom, I really want FIRE so I never have to deal with this corporate bullshit again.
Collaborate in a few more genocides eh Microsoft
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I call for employees to tell their employers to FTFO.
You know, Im not certain, but I think the job of being a cunty CFO could be done by AI… Are you listening Microshaft?
“intensity, clarity, and bold execution”
Not just “intensity”.
Maybe if they keep going and add a few more words it will magically start to mean something.
