More Signs of Financial Troubles at Microsoft, Europe Puts Microsoft Under Investigation
Other Microsoft boosters say it goes even further than this:
This coincides with mass layoffs: "Microsoft started cutting back on its employee subscriptions to news and reports services in November, with some publishers receiving an automated email cancellation of a contract."
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them,” recited one source.
Microsoft is drowning in debt and credible reports suggest that despite securing some more loans Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' is going to collapse soon (no money left, nowhere left to borrow from anymore; even Softbank struggled to give it the money promised at the end of 2025). We now learn that Microsoft is under investigation. This is from Switzerland: "The antitrust authority said it has received complaints from private businesses as well as many government agencies and public companies over significant price hikes of Microsoft's product licenses, which may indicate an unlawful restriction of competition."
They keep increasing the prices to try to get more money somehow, but they know mass layoffs are inevitable. Microsoft never denied imminent layoffs.
The end of the library is part of the cuts. It has nothing to do with "slop" (or "AI") and their internal communications help show that it's just a lousy attempt to control the narrative. When Microsoft shut down all its stores in 2020 it said they were just "going online". Pure nonsense! █