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Two Things IBM and Microsoft Have in Common: Layoffs and Fake Hype Like 'Clown Computing' and 'Hey Hi' (AI) as Perceived 'Opportunity' for 'Growth'

Microsoft even uses the 'Hey Hi' (AI) hype/buzzwords to disguise layoffs as some sort of celebrated ingenuity

IBM staff size



IBM 'Clown Computing' and 'Hey Hi'



IBM remote work



Summary: The infamous pair of monopolists, Microsoft and IBM, are both suffering during the COVID-19 lock-downs (no matter how hard they try to spin it and/or distract from it)

"In May of 1990, the DoJ gave the green light, freeing the FTC to open their probe. With no shortage of help from Microsoft's competitors, the FTC collected mounds of evidence showing that Microsoft and IBM had been in cahoots from the beginning."

--Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, a book composed
by the daughter of Microsoft's PR mogul

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