Microsoft Cannot Pay Salaries
We recently learned about Microsoft pressing on staff to be paid in stock (speculation and participation in the Ponzi scheme). Why not in real money? This week there are lots of Microsoft layoffs everywhere in the world (ahead of 'results') and here we have 4+ Microsoft insiders chatting as recently as yesterday about mass layoffs whose sole purpose is cost-cutting by salary reduction.
Remember that Microsoft did not deny a desire to shave off 20 or more percent of Azure (or costs associated with it, namely salaries).
Microsoft is deep in debt. It even discards so-called "hey hi" experts (because slop has been a commercial flop. █