Media Operatives of Microsoft Paint Microsoft Layoffs as Buyouts (Intentionally False Narrative)
Microsoft - like IBM - is trying to get rid of 'expensive' workers or people who have worked in the company since well before the 'visa frenzy'.
"Buyout" typically means one company buying another company. In recent years this word was misappropriated to mean de facto 'voluntary' layoffs, i.e. "we'll pay you some money to leave or to become 'voluntarily' unemployed." (GAFAM does this a lot, especially Google)
This is Microsoft-controlled spin: (it's authored by people who work closely for and with Microsoft)
Same talking points from the same circle of Microsoft cheerleaders (the above is literally funded by Microsoft [1, 2]).
Those are mass layoffs disguised as something else.
And meanwhile, more executives leave ahead of the mass layoffs: Former Head of Xbox Film/TV Kiki Wolfkill Has Left Microsoft After 28 Years
Many actual executives of XBox left, not just two. The media focused on only two of them.
They know what's coming. So does the co-father/founder of XBox.