That’s actually one positive thing about AI
“Microsoft is killing itself with AI”
This isn’t an outside cause hurting a company, the damage is self inflicted.
Microsoft hurts itself in its confusion
Potato tomato.
I’m sorry, I haven’t heard that name in a long time. Didn’t they change it to Microslop to ride the AI wave?
I worked for Microsoft years ago. Nandella early years were great, quality was part of the process, engineer on automation like me had a great time.
Then he lost his kid and he returned something changed, managers were much less flexible, they started to fire people and luckily I was able to change jobs before they start the annual layoffs.
Instead of giving raises they prefer to cut 10% every year and hire cheaper… my friends that remained say the morale is very low
And this change things, when you like the place you work, you work the extra mile, when you are afraid of being layoff you just fake you’re doing more, you try to pull the rug of others instead of collaborate, ambient gets toxic and quality and true innovation suffers.
I think you’ve just described pretty much every corporation in North America though, if not even Europe. I read somewhere the other day it’s called the Rat Enterprise and the Rat Economy, which I think it’s an apt description. Nobody produces much of value anymore, it’s just largely bullshit and smoke and mirrors. Anyone who produces physical goods has enshitified them to basically just passable enough quality.
I think AI is only part of the problem, Nadella’s leadership is marked with a lot of bad choices that aligned users against Microslop. The requirements for Windows 11 was an intentional ploy to get users to upgrade their computers, instigating a potentially massive E-waste event. Allowing Xbox Division to fall so far from grace that it’s barely a blip in the Gaming Scene, when it could’ve evolved into something competitive with the right choices being made. Forcing features on users that they disable, only to enable those features sneakily after every few updates. Forcing Edge as the only default browser, and making it hard as fuck to use another choice on a computer is some next level bullshit too. LLMs are going to be the decoration on the dagger that slays Microslop as a company, but it’s not the only factor that will end them.
I am chuffed that Linux is getting a lot of attention because Microslop’s leadership dared to be so brazenly stupid; I say let Microslop die, as they are creating their intricate corporate suicide plan.
AINadella is killing Microsoft.His leadership has screwed up so much (remember Windows 11?). But stock continues to go up so that’s all that matters.
Stock has been continuously going down for at least 6 months.
Well maybe AI isn’t ball that bad.
The article seems to be saying that Microsoft is losing favor of investors, not that they began losing money or something.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love Microslop to fall down, but… I do not get how failing to satisfy finicky slop-loving investors is “death to Microsoft”.
They made some incredibly stupid decisions.
They happily ran on “Fuck you customer, eat copilot/recall/edge/ai training we’ll do as we please ^because we have enterprise customers^” while completely forgetting that enterprise customers also have ears. And invasive data capture sours companies on you REAALLL fuckin’ fast.
It’s a tricky thing, because shareholder value is entirely vibes based. Microsoft is demonstrably losing market share, approval from users, and functionality of the OS. While it’s understandable to want to chase new trends, long term OS stability and compatibility for the average user was their golden goose, and they’re killing it. We’re seeing people move away from windows, which 5 years ago would have been an impossibility.
It’s slow to act, but the more market share something like Linux gets, the more it tends to snowball in terms of public opinion. That definitely has the possibility of eating a significant chunk of MS revenue.
I hope they don’t figure it out and back off completely until Linux has enough market share to force software companies to design for Linus as much as Macintosh at a minimum. I really hope that windows figures out their shit and makes a good OS again in the future but they’ve shown time and time again they can’t be a monopoly without enshitification being their main plan, be it when they almost got broken up 30 years ago and they propped up Apple as a “competitor” which was a joke at the time or now with everything they did with 8 and now 11 they need to be him led like IBM was and become a background player maybe useful for buisness ventures but not powerful enough to delay competitive advances to keep their market share.
Microsoft: Stands on literal fucking lava
Microsoft: “Why am I taking damage?”
“Maybe I could eat some of it to get better?”
If i stab myself with a knife you don’t say “A knife is killing teft”
Just saying.
Whoa spoilers (if you’re that teft)
#fuckmoash
