You Can Tell Microsoft is in Trouble When Its Own Fans and Staff Blast it
"Microsoft sinks billions into chasing artificial intelligence fads to hype up its share price."
Proprietary software sucks. In general, its quality is mediocre, so the code is being hidden from sight. Many people got tired of how unreliable Windows is; that's one of the main reasons or driving factors for people abandoning Windows for GNU/Linux ("freedom" is something they typically only grasp after the transition).
At the moment Microsoft is losing "market share" almost everywhere, but the stock goes up based on nothing at all! As we put it last month, "The More "Market Share" Microsoft Loses, The Higher the Shares Go" and we could instead say, "The More Staff Microsoft Loses, The Higher the Shares Go" (layoffs).
Some hours ago a Microsoft insider (or former insider) blasted the company [1,2] and it was even picked up by Microsoft propaganda sites, which actually agree. He's a former Vice-President, so it's not some random person saying that.
Those same Microsoft propaganda sites then mocked the company and its leadership [3]. To quote: "If there's one thing that I find tiring about Satya Nadella's Microsoft, it's how poorly they treat their consumer businesses."
It then blasted the company's "hey hi" hype, calling it a "fad".
Quoting further: "Microsoft has been working hard to destroy its image and consumer good will for some time, starting the fiscal year with thousands of layoffs. Microsoft has also killed its customer service teams and shuttered retail locations, too. And in recent years, Microsoft has also begun to gut its social media teams on top, and this weekend saw a pretty hilarious example of that."
When Microsoft's own fans are getting sick and tired perhaps it's time to accept that the company is sick. █
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Subscriptions like Xbox Game Pass have changed Microsoft's games business and the industry at large. All of the major Big 3 platform-holders have their own subscription offering, but Xbox is unique in its approach: its content is not a catalog bin like the competing Switch Online and PlayStation Plus. Microsoft launches all of its biggest first-party games day one on Game Pass, which can lower both the launch and long-term sales of a game product.
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Former Bethesda exec Pete Hines says Game Pass is 'nothing' without the people making the games
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"I'm not working in any of these companies anymore, and so I don't assume that everything I knew while I was in the industry still holds true today," Pete expressed.
"At the same time, I'm involved enough to know I saw what I considered to be some short-sighted decision-making several years ago, and it seems to be bearing out the way I said."
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If there's one thing that I find tiring about Satya Nadella's Microsoft, it's how poorly they treat their consumer businesses.
I wrote previously about how Surface, Xbox, and Windows are all suffering from underfunding and cut corners, as Microsoft sinks billions into chasing artificial intelligence fads to hype up its share price. Many of Microsoft's apps and services have become abandonware, such as Microsoft Authenticator, Launcher, and SwiftKey.
Microsoft has been working hard to destroy its image and consumer good will for some time, starting the fiscal year with thousands of layoffs. Microsoft has also killed its customer service teams and shuttered retail locations, too. And in recent years, Microsoft has also begun to gut its social media teams on top, and this weekend saw a pretty hilarious example of that.