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Huge Microsoft Layoffs Coming Shortly (With Financial Report)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2026,
updated Apr 24, 2026

In the news today:

Days ago: Nothing But Vapourware Since XBox Leadership Ousted and Mass Layoffs Will Come Soon

XBox is pretty much doomed, so further mass layoffs are inevitable and only a question of when and how many, not "if".

For the time being there is no concrete date, but we'll know soon, maybe even before the so-called 'results'. There are also silent layoffs going on.

We'll keep an eye on how much the debt grew.

2 days ago a Microsoft-sponsored site said "Microsoft’s stock decline and the softening of real estate in this corridor (both affecting me personally) were the prompts to write it down" and further noted: "Copilot (inarguably Microsoft’s most strategically critical product) has converted just 15 million paid subscribers from a captive base of 450 million Microsoft 365 users. That is 3.3%. When your own customers will not buy what you are selling at scale, it is worth asking whether the product is genuinely solving a problem or simply a feature in search of a use case."

There will be lots of slop layoffs. Be ready. It's a bubble.

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