Microsoft at 50 Follows the General Trajectory of Skype
The microsoft.com site "lost" about 8% (traffic-wise) in 2 months:
Increasingly irrelevant company.
That Microsoft is having a problems is not a secret; even people who work there are well aware of them and some would dare say so in public (many would not dare because they know their bosses are pressured to pass lists of workers to cull). People work very long hours; this means that on a per-hour (or pro rata) basis Microsoft pays them less and less over time. "Expensive" workers are told to walk the plank.
The upcoming wave of mass layoffs at Microsoft will first be covered by media operatives of Microsoft, e.g. Jordan Novet and Todd Bishop. So expect the tallies they put forth to be intentionally false. Nevertheless, slopfarms and parrots (lots of them in the media) will repeat the false tallies.
A year ago Skype died. How many years does Microsoft have left before payroll becomes impossible? In the meantime the US government essentially bails out Microsoft, again and again. █