Microsoft "slims down money-losing online operations," says a Bill Gates-funded paper. That is a gross understatement. There are massive layoffs inside the company and people whom I know from the inside are being shuffled around this summer. Microsoft is not doing so well, so it uses corporate media to plant talking points and pretend that business operating at a loss are "self-sustaining". Don't believe any of that nonsense. Based on what I've heard from insiders, Microsoft is in a chaotic state. It merely distorts the media to pretend otherwise. Nadella may be more successful a mole than Ballmer (whom outsiders don't trust) and being a mole, i.e. infiltrating those who are winning (e.g. Red Hat, Android), is Microsoft's last chance. Look what it does to the Linux Foundation. How long before it can be labelled the Windows-Linux Foundation? ⬆