Summary: Microsoft staff is baffled about the disparity between claims or prosperity and relentless mass layoffs among other cuts; maybe scepticism is well overdue
To Microsoft, what's left of GitHub after dismantling/folding it is some "training set" (people's code, without permission to "train" i.e. misuse under the guise of "GenAI" plagiarism)
By conservative estimates, and based on court documents submitted by them, they're prepared to spend over a million dollars on lawyers, fighting against me and my wife