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Microsoft Uses LLM Slop to Defraud (or Rob) Shareholders

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025,
updated Jul 01, 2025

2 years ago: Poorly Redacted Documents From the Court Reveal That Microsoft Has Indeed Defrauded Shareholders About Azure

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Lie and cover up the lies about Microsoft performance

"The dam has burst," Ryan said in IRC. "All these trolls that they have insisting xbox has a future....what will they say now?"

Ryan had many XBoxes (Microsoft kept sending him more and more of them because they kept breaking; they gave him EIGHT consoles*) and now, after billions in losses (probably tens of billions of dollars in losses over the years) XBox seems to be dying rapidly - something to the tune of 20% or more staff laid off in one go (not the first "go"; it won't be the last either). Managers know it's a disaster [1] and the "company's console business is dead" [2], says the person who jointly started XBox.

"Investor-facing stuff I've read," Ryan said, basically misled investors. He added: "Up until last year they were insisting this was a growth business."

Last year we pointed out that Microsoft propaganda sites pretended XBox was "up" when in fact they just added up revenues of a company Microsoft had bought. They were accompanied or supported by LLM chaff and spam online. One could easily subscribe to this illusion of an XBox 'rebound', based on lies and LLM slop which parroted these lies, not only quickly but also on the cheap.

Microsoft is basically defrauding its shareholders by LLM slop.

Related/contextual items from the news:

  1. Microsoft’s sales chief takes sabbatical during layoffs plan [Ed: Must be VERY bad at Microsoft right now]

    Microsoft’s chief commercial officer, Judson Althoff, will take a two-month sabbatical, according to a company spokesperson.

    He is expected to return in September, following the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year on June 30.

    The announcement comes as Microsoft plans significant layoffs, primarily affecting its sales division.

  2. Ex-Microsoft executive: Xbox strategy is chaotic and company's console business is dead

    Microsoft's Xbox strategy has been rather interesting lately, to put it one way. After going all in on its Game Pass subscription plans, the company made a rather major pivot, which resulted in previously exclusive Xbox games landing on Sony's PlayStation 5. A notable example of this is Forza Horizon 5, which landed on Sony's console in April. In a similar vein, it also announced two Xbox Ally gaming handhelds powered by Windows and a multi-year partnership with AMD to build next-generation Xbox consoles. However, not all is as rosy as it would seem, as Redmond is expected to announce major layoffs across the Xbox division pretty soon. In this turbulent time, a former Microsoft executive has expressed her dissatisfaction with the situation.

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*He wanted us to specify "those were XBox 360s and the E74 Red Ring of Death. The original XBox made a decent cheap Linux computer. It ran a variant of Debian. I never had any hardware problems out of the first generation. The games left a lot to be desired though. The Japanese have always had better games. Microsoft was never able to replicate that, although the game selection got better for the XBox 360 era, it wasn't until halfway into the console lifecycle when they did hardware refreshes to get rid of the heat and red ring of death issue. Power consumption. The launch units would heat up the wall outlet. Microsoft tried to downplay the E74 RRoD problem, but it became so widespread that they just couldn't cover it up. They must have lost a lot of money on that. I think wanting out of the hardware business makes sense for them. The hardware is too expensive and they're going to pay a bunch of those Chinese tariffs on the consoles. How many are you really going to sell when they're wll over $700? Amazon has been jacking up prices like mad. Cookware from China, the major brands, the quality stuff, solid stainless steel? It's all doubled in price in the last month or so. Tariffs."

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