The Latest Wave of Microsoft Crime, Bribes, and Fraud
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SO Linus Torvalds now openly mocks "AI" (which he calls hype) and an associate of ours has found another example of "legalized bribery" by Microsoft (we gave other such examples); they nowadays disguise bribes to governments as "investment" in "AI" and sometimes they buy fake "clients" by basically "partnering" with companies, giving them money to give back to Microsoft, faking "demand". The above example ("Microsoft aims to triple datacenter capacity to fuel AI boom") is one of many.
When you read about Microsoft partnering with an "AI" company read that as, Microsoft pays some company to buy "Azure" time (part of the ongoing fraud). Microsoft is also "donating" computer time under the guise of "investing" in Europe, Japan, etc. It's all a giant scam of Nadella et al.
Windows is dying, so they desperately need some vapourware for fake "growth." Microsoft is still an evil, highly corrupt company. From an accounting perspective the above does not work (Microsoft paying people to "become" clients, so debt has truly surged). They basically get shareholders to invest in an epic scam of unprecedented proportions. █