2026-10-27 21:20 UTC
I really don’t understand what Microsoft is doing here, well I will just pretend to be willfully ignorant for a second:
When company such as Microsoft is presented with the gift of drastic improvement in productivity, why is their first reaction to lay people off? Shouldn’t they capitalize on the gains, take on more work, release more products gain market share and make more money? Microsoft is a software company. Why aren’t they releasing more software? Why are they laying people off in their video games studios?
There are so many segments of the software and hardware industry they could enter or re-enter or expand. Video editing software, music production software, social media, micro computers, consumer electronics accessories…
Either they have no leadership or they know the productivity gains are not real, or both.
Replies (3)
-
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2026-10-28 01:15
I think they know/strongly suspect that the bubble is about to pop. They are trying to drastically cut expenses to better weather the coming economic storm.
-
@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 04:01
Like others said, it looks better next quarter than a bunch of new projects. Short term gain vs long. But also, their expenses from all that hosting and usage are high. They’ve masked it creatively, but that only works so long. Maybe they’re trying to make their balance sheet look less catastrophic in the short term (again, at the expense of the long term).
-
@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-10-28 05:16
thier execs and csuites expect a golden parachute thats why.