Microsoft Cuts Hundreds of Jobs After Firing 6,000 in May (yahoo.com) 20
Microsoft cut hundreds more jobs just weeks after its largest layoff in years, underscoring the tech industry's efforts to trim costs even as it plows billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. From a report: More than 300 employees were told their positions had been eliminated on Monday, according to a Washington state notice reviewed by Bloomberg.
The cuts impacted a range of positions, including software engineers, marketers, product managers, lawyers and research scientists, a state document showed. A Microsoft spokesperson said the latest headcount reduction is in addition to the 6,000 job cuts announced last month.
The cuts impacted a range of positions, including software engineers, marketers, product managers, lawyers and research scientists, a state document showed. A Microsoft spokesperson said the latest headcount reduction is in addition to the 6,000 job cuts announced last month.
Does this mean (Score:4, Funny)
they'll stop mucking around with the Windows UI? Because that would be just peachy.
Re: (Score:3)
Everyone's heard of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", but Microsoft screwed it up and left out the "don't". Hilarity ensued.
They rarely fix the broken stuff and spend a lot of time breaking the working stuff.
Busted; The New Hotness. (Score:2)
Everyone's heard of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", but Microsoft screwed it up and left out the "don't". Hilarity ensued.
They rarely fix the broken stuff and spend a lot of time breaking the working stuff.
(General Microsoft) "Coder! Do you have a backdoor telemetry channel aligned with our Revenue Ramming Department in that module?!?"
(Private Coder) "Sir, No Sir!"
(General Microsoft) "Well, SHIT son! Damn thing's busted! We can't ship that. Get to work."
I think Windows 11 was designed by AI (Score:2)
Because no human could screw up that badly, and it does sort of have that seven thumbs on one hand look to it.
Re: (Score:3)
No, they'll just ask AI to muck with it.
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Re: (Score:2)
they'll stop mucking around with the Windows UI? Because that would be just peachy.
Uh, sadly no. This means AI will be mucking with it instead.
Save your peaches. You might need to throw them at something. Like a UI.
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Naa, they will add more useless features, remove useful ones and mix the rest up. All by AI, so additional bugs, hard or impossible to fix and generally more crappy performance (as long as that is still possible)
They lost their jobs to AI, but... (Score:2)
Re:They lost their jobs to AI, but... (Score:4, Interesting)
They made over $48 billion dollars of profit *last quarter*. I think they can afford to pay as many people as they'd like.
Subscriptions are an addiction (Score:2)
It's the only legal addictive drug.
Re: (Score:2)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-plans-spend-80-bln-ai-enabled-data-centers-fiscal-2025-cnbc-reports-2025-01-03/
Re: They lost their jobs to AI, but... (Score:1)
Not exactly (Score:2)
And some people didn't have their productivity increased but they now just have to work 80 hours a week to keep their jobs.
Either way you're getting replaced by ai. Either by a competent AI or by any competent one who's like that one co-worker we all have where we have to pick up their slack.
What happened to the days (Score:1)
when companies would return cost savings to their customers? It goes to the CEO and investors. They are making more money now than ever.
Meanwhile... (Score:2)
MSFT stock is up 19% higher vs 3 mos ago.
So they are arranging for their death? (Score:2)
Because they have just about managed to be "good enough" (or rather barely not oo bad) with humans and they have lipped in quality constantly over the last few years.
Well, I will not complain. It is the only good move for them at this time, because they can certainly not fix the mess they made.
Growing or Dying (Score:2)
Managers love to cut cost. But when the comp[any is growing, they find that poor employees are still needed, so they reduced other expenses. They finder cheaper vendors, come up with new, cheaper products and methods, etc.
When a company begins to cut large numbers of employees that means they are no longer growing - they are at best middle aged, if not senior citizens. They have no new locations, divisions, or products that could use an already trained employees that understands their culture.
Do not bel
Re: Growing or Dying (Score:2)
"AI being the reason"
AI is the reason, but not the way you imply. They are backing off a bit from OpenAI since Altman got fired. Pretty sure this is simple matter of planning for one thing (giant investment in AI) then having those plans go away part way through. It would be interesting to know what business units are getting hit. I'm guessing Azure is the biggest loser.