You're really overthinking this.... I had one job where i used to walk by upper management working in conference rooms agonizing over data that I knew was entirely fabricated by product and project managers who couldn't provide requirements to a degree required to accurately report to management.

That 30% number sounds soooo vague and fake.

Yep. Been hearing "It's a tight market" for as long as I've been in the market.

I can already imagine the mandate that %15 of work be offloaded to AI.
Then the follow up management questionnaire "How much of your departmental work is performed by AI?". Oh uhhh 30%! Yeah yeah double the minimum as measured uhhhh qualitatively!"
Then the followed by a mandate to reduce headcount by %15 as that's about half of the supposed productivity gains. That ought to be safe.

Microsoft devs aren't crap. They're really really smart guys usually.
Microsoft is just a shit place to work and gets shittier every day,
Also they have a whole ecosystem of shitty indian bodyshops that will hire anyone anywhere as long as they have a pulse and take on microsoft projects and make them shittier, My wife interviewed with a microsoft vendor once and she told them she had zero requirements and wouldn't accept the offer and they BEGGED her to take it anyhow.

I looked up the vendor and they had a microsoft vendor aware double gold diamond platinum or whatever the fuck.
Typical though, to become an employee they'll make you rotate a trie 30 degrees and remove every pointer that's a prime number in order to get a direct hire helpdesk position but if you're another company you can 3rd party in a bunch of workers who took a 2 week coding bootcamp and forgot it and be golden.

Everyone at microsoft that isn't a deluded fresh off the boat h1b kool aid drinker who needs to believe or get deported knows the company is retarded.

You should install the microsoft copilot chat extension for edge. It'll help you avoid embarrassing grammar issues.

Yeah and rite aid bought bartell a few years from their first bankruptcy.
I know some people will always play the latest CoD or whatever but these days games don't improve that much so a lot of people won't feel like new game X or Y is a compelling reason to stick with windows.

Especially when the latest windows might not play their old favorites as well or linux offers some performance benefits or little timmy's gaming computer can't even run the latest windows anyhow

It's especially puzzling that while all this is happening they're practically forcing people onto cloud office suite.
Proton at home, o365 at work. Sure o365 is recurring revenue for them but their victims aren't stupid either and when companies are tightening up their budgets that high monthly bill will start looking like a good brag to have on an annual evaluation.

There was always the fear of it not working right if they migrated off office but I think people care less these days if a word document doesn't render right and they've made drastic changes to the various office applications so familiarity is less of a factor. Fuck it we're on google docs, fuck it we're running collabera, fuck it we're going to libre office.

It feels like they gave up advantages chasing fads, cloud fad, mobile computing fads, LLM fads.. They have at most half the success they hoped and come out the other side with less leverage. Which is most of how the whole world got locked into their software in the first place.

I worked at one place and they had an 80k budget to virtualize their servers and it was TIGHT! The budget for microsoft licensing was 2 million/year or something. I just don't see them being able to walk into a negotiation and bully people like that much longer.

I would love to know what microsoft's 10 year roadmap is.
They're barely even trying with windows.
Wine gets better all the time.
They're pushing cloud office tools.

In the past you'd want outlook, word, and excel, People were used to windows, so you'd get a domain controller and office suite and hell since we're already here guess we'll license a bunch of other shit too.
But what happens when you're already on o365 and you got a tight budget and you gotta refresh 200 desktops to run the latest version of windows?

Maybe we'll just run linux? From there out the whole ecosystem lock in starts to fall apart. I would have considered this linux fanboy fantasy 10 years ago.

Loool dude you're like the most contrarian person in the whole site. ;)

Why? If I became a facebook preacher and convinced senile boomers to reverse mortgage their homes and give me the proceeds, would you have to hand it to me?
Do i gotta hand it to Jack Welsh. Sure he destroyed a legendary US corporation... but man he did make some quick bucks too... gotta hand it to him?

What about peter theil? You know he's put the private data of the whole wold into elasticsearch... but man he did get rich too.

Sorry that I maintain only casual awareness of inconsequential money pits.

Is facebook really thriving?
I wouldn't know since i haven't looked at it in ages

Once again didn't read. Thanks for playing.

facism is when power clusters together and gets its way through force of will to finally set things right despite the various weak enemies. This is how it presents itself.

Even outside of fascism the business community represents a power that's almost impossible to alienate if you wanna get anything done. Politics makes for strange bedfellows but theres one guy who is always invited to the orgy.

Nah man i get my carbon footprint. Even when i was probably living cleaner than most people could tolerate i was still at like 4 earths or something.

The problem is that there are no consumer alternatives by design and a multiparty propaganda network that keeps people thinking theres no problem. Those people are at fault. At this point i don't blame the average idiot for anything because they're barely sapient.