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- cloud services exceeded $75 billion
- Office productivity software and LinkedIn, delivered $33.11 billion in revenue
- Personal Computing unit, which encompasses Windows, search advertising, devices and video games, totaled $13.45 billion
Writing is on the wall. Xbox and Windows made money, but a fraction of what Office and enterprise services made.
Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.
Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.
Isn’t Linux mostly used for cloud services though?
I have no statistics, but my sense is that most orgs still depend on Active Directory, Sharepoint, and other services that are Windows-based and often hosted on the company’s cloud structure. And Azure itself is fundamentally a Windows service.
Linux has become the most popular operating system on Azure as over 60% of customer cores run Linux-based workloads.
Even on Microsoft Azure they mostly use Linux
Maybe windows still underpins some important services for them though, I can’t really comment on that
Collaborate in a few more genocides eh Microsoft
You know, Im not certain, but I think the job of being a cunty CFO could be done by AI… Are you listening Microshaft?
Take note. It’s never enough, no matter how much you give.
Do more with less.
In good times and bad.
Work your wage.
also work for what you believe in, whether that be community service, supporting your neighbours, making a computer game, chatting with friends, everything helps as long as you can believe in it with your heart
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Intensity huh? Here you go
@#$% YOU
Maybe don’t release an operating system that cannot be installed in a lot of computers?
God I can’t wait to get out of the grind.
I’m over halfway to freedom, I really want FIRE so I never have to deal with this corporate bullshit again.
“intensity, clarity, and bold execution”
Not just “intensity”.
Maybe if they keep going and add a few more words it will magically start to mean something.
I prefer emphasis, highlighting, and italics execution.
Capitalism is collapsing under the weight of record profits and additional billionaires.
These people are fucking insane, Greed is a sickness and with Trump in the white house the disease is absolutely flourishing.
it’s crazy for me to watch people rapidly waking up to that fact after i’ve said it for what feels like decades and was completely ignored for the longest time.
Publicly traded companies have to continually make more money than they did last month, last quarter, same time last year.
Failing to do so means they are somehow “losing” money that is “rightfully owed” to them and the stock market punishes them.
It doesn’t matter if you’re profitable or not, so long as you’re continually making more money.
They actually have a legal obligation to maximize profits. It’s insane.
Technically they don’t - it’s a lie told often by CEO. But its a lie. https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Fiduciary-Duties-of-the-Board-of-Directors.pdf
the way i understand it, the company has an obligation to fulfill “shareholder’s requests”, which is maximizing profits in 99% of cases, at least on publicly traded companies.
Same document, section about Shareholders.
There’s no such thing. There COULD be something like shareholders voting on smthing and those votes are binding, but the agenda is declared by the company and can be only shiet like dividends rate, certain acquisitions, etc. Not the company strategy itself.
Ah so it’s the classic “but my hands are forced to do the machine’s bidding” then goes on to do the thing they really wanted to do while their hollow appeal to authority is still echoing.
I believe it’s one of the things corpos love about AI so much - it can be used as a stochastic authority to excuse their behaviour. And if they don’t like what it extrudes? Well they can just shake up the inputs and run it again, until they get what they want.
Yeah, except for Tesla, how the fuck man.
It’s not only “more”. The company I work for had “record profits, far and beyond anything we were expecting” in 2021. In 2022, we were told that the company made more than in 2021, but didn’t meet the earnings projections. That’s still record profits, but phrased like a loss.
Not only must the line go up, but it has to go up faster than it did before. Nothing less than exponential growth.
It’s supposed to be growth related to the things which didn’t progress, so to say. So it’s not literally supposed to be growth of processes, just that stagnation makes things diminish in value, and compared to them things more alive “grow”. Something like that.
Kinda like inflation. And that’s fine, that can describe a pretty sustainable society, it’s not about consuming more and more, it’s like rotation.
Except with today’s oligopolies there’s a different idea, that they really have to grow as in capturing more and more of humanity’s resources. The AI bubble (or not) is their most recent approach to that.
That’s because expectations were shaped by the 90s when many things exploded (unfortunately much of that were countries, also landmines and other expendable means of destruction).
In the 00s it was possible to create illusion of that explosion still going on brighter and brighter, despite just continuing what started in the 90s, and then to create a few large-scale scams (or madness pandemics, or tech fashions, whatever ; point is they weren’t the same as years 1993-1999) with iPhones, new Apple in general, Google, Facebook, Twitter.
I’m not saying it was fake or worthless, it was a revolution too, but not what companies try to show since the dotcom bubble.
So - they are still trying to show that, with kinda rough, generic, and insincere effort, a bit like sex workers in their makeup.
And they can’t show that without such expansion in width, not in height.
It goes a layer further than that even. If the rate at which that growth is happening isn’t itself growing then investors start getting nervous.
Societal collapse. Greed has won.
So dramatic, LOL
Very happy to see my employer slowly moving away from their shitty products.
All they’re good for is stress, frustration, and justifying the jobs of old Sys Admins that sit in ivory towers.
The rest of the world is moving on. I challenge them to show growth next year.
I remember it when old sysadmins would remember OS/2, Fidonet and be respectful to FreeBSD (despite not having touched it for many years). And I’m kind young.
There are now “old” sysadmins loyal to Windows? Something is wrong with this decade.
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“We’re entering FY26 with clear priorities in security, quality, and AI transformation, building on our momentum and grounded in our mission and growth-mindset culture,” Hood wrote, mentioning Nadella’s email. “Both the pace of change and customer expectations are continuously accelerating.”
Hood’s email, notably, didn’t mention Microsoft’s recent workforce cuts, which have exceeded 10,000 this year even as profit swells. Nadella’s email last week attempted to explain this “seeming incongruence” as the “enigma of success.” Some employees weren’t satisfied with the explanation.
These people get paid so much for spouting this utter bullshit every day. I hope they have moments when they realize the hollowness of what they do.
Burn the business colleges to the ground
the hollowness of what they do
i suspect they intentionally hollow out their soul to save weight or sth
Agreed. What even the fuck is that string of complete nonsense? These C-suite dipshits say it so much, someone is eating it up.
They’re trying to tell their “stakeholders”, employees, customer, shareholders, what to believe, what to think that’s the bullshit dazzle spell to preserve your suspension of disbelief just a little longer.
The “someone” is the investors, or generally speaking, the market.
Major CEOs can’t say they’re taking a financial hit, for whatever reason. This is why I like working for small companies, and most Americans work for small businesses.
Last company: CEO announced to the board that he intended to lose money in order to build staff and products. Yes, he even included tech debt. The board applauded him.
Meh, we fucked around and still made a profit, so he gave the board the same report the following year, same results. We fucked around a made a profit. Again.
tl;dr: Don’t mistake all CEOs for the bullshit you hear from Nadella and Musk and the like. Remember; You only hear crazy talk reported, because it’s crazy talk.
Kinda like HMOs. You only hear about the bad ones because people in good ones don’t bitch about them at every opportunity.
Worked for a company like that, but not everyone was happy. Investors were brought in and place went to shit. Sucks, but I got out just as it started getting worse.
They know every single word is hollow. Eat it and rejoice peasant. Are you not filled?
customer expectations are continuously accelerating
Just make a functional OS that doesn’t get in user’s ways. Those are the expectations.
Microsoft doesn’t expect growth in their OS offerings. These days all their focus is on AI and cloud.
