Strategy of capitalism. You have to shoot for short term hail-marry profits at the expense of, well, every thing else.
Anon isn't a Microsoft fan
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balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sales here. I know people who sell Azure and I can tell you for a fact that Microsoft’s sales srategy is literally “well, you’re already familiar with Windows/Office, so you might as well…”
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Meanwhile, it was my familiarity with their products that drove me to Linux.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Embrace, Extend and Extinguish…
Its a Microsoft strategy.
The studio I was just laid off from was super successful and Microsoft has now gutted it with the last layoffs. I don’t think it’ll be successful for that much longer, morale is now non existent and people don’t want to work.
Business decisions made by C suites rarely make sense on the ground.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I’m so happy my early alpha forever Minecraft Mojang account I tried to log into a couple weeks ago is DELETED ENTIRELY because I didn’t tie it into a Microsoft bullshit account before an arbitrary point THANK YOU MICROSOFT I WILL DEFINITELY INSTALL WINDOWS 11 EVER
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They a little less pro-trump on the servers at least?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s really cool but it’s just not quite the same. Luckily I found ElyPrismLauncher so I can play Minecraft without giving Microsoft any money.
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same, I had that exact Mojang account and I no longer have it
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It’s funny because the legacy Minecraft accounts could be migrated to mojang accounts from the time they made that option available to the time Microsoft killed migrating altogether.
Decq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was a pure money grab to not have done this for everyone automatically. I lost my Minecraft copy too because of this. But no way in hell I’m going to give them the satisfaction of buying it again… I had it since the Minecraft beta/early access(?) too…
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s called “number go up”. Every quarter, all the time, until the heat death of the universe. Extremely sustainable
silasmariner@programming.dev 1 day ago
That’s a good book! Fascinating that the author was hoping to write about the rise and fall of Tether, but it never quite fell, so he ended up with the climax being SBF’s downfall
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Its genuinely crazy how the biggest software compsny on the planet is genuinely completely and utterly incompetent at making software. Like xbox is one thing, but even their core PC software is a complete fucking joke.
I unfortusntrly have to work with microsoft enviroments and if youre using a sharepoint list to store data and you hide a column, then want to unhide it, you need to go into the the kegacy version of sharepoint, then into the list settings, columns, then unhide the colum from there. And the “new” version of shsrepoint is like 3-4 yesrs old at this point, but still diesnt have all the basic features.
Then theres powerapps, which is genuinely just awful. Like say you have an app with multiple buttons you want to change the colour of. You cant select more than one at a time and change the colour en mass, you have to do each one individually.
Or when importing a project from another enviroment, you cant import multiple power automate workflows at once, you have to do each individually.
And that not even touching on fucking windows.
If they djdnt have the desktop PC market held completely hostage, they would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.
PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 1 day ago
I use a feature in Microsoft Outlook called “quick parts” every day to insert pre-configured tables into emails and “new Outlook” doesn’t have this feature.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think it is an actual business tactic. I thi k they’re buying up good devs so they won’t be bought up by other companies who might use them to make bank.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Eh, I’ve had a number of coworkers who ended up working for Microsoft. They were all either terrible programmers or utterly unmotivated to do much actual work. One of them was a guy who did not show up even once at my company for more than a year but wasn’t fired, for some unknown reason. Microsoft’s inability to produce much of anything in the way of good software is no surprise to me.
Personally, I think it has a lot to do with Microsoft’s being one of the pioneers of TDD (Test-Driven Development). The idea is that you have a small number of good, experienced developers writing suites of automated tests, coupled with a large number of inexperienced or inept developers who try to write code that passes these tests. Whatever code happens to be good enough is kept and the rest is tossed away. In this model, there is some advantage to sheer numbers even when most of the people you’re hiring are pretty terrible at what they do.
It’s funny to imagine real-world engineering using an approach such as this. Like, imagine a world where they let anybody off the street attempt to build bridges, while the experienced civil engineers spend their time trying to knock them down. You might get a few bridges that actually worked, but your rivers would be clogged with the remains of all the failures.
qarbone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve never heard TDD described like this. I cannot even understand how this works from a project standpoint.
“We need a new feature. Todd’s written the test already, so everyone just have at it with your fastest implementation; whoever passes first, gets to go to prod!”
AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Is it well known that this is how Microsoft practices TDD? Because that’s not the normal practice for TDD. TDD just means you write tests first, but normally the same person writes the tests and then makes them pass.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My biggest issue with this kind of “TDD” is, you pay two people to write the same code twice. Test-driven can work if done correctly, but this just stupid.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Layoffs also look good to investors (so consider this from the point of a roughly human-shaped scum-sucking parasite) on financial reports because those filthy little humans never deliver anything and only cost us money, they need to go.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
“…it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization”
nthavoc@lemmy.today 1 day ago
This strategy is called putting all your eggs into the AI basket and then panic when the basket starts rip. So you patch it up with Xbox money because everyone says that basket will be awesome one day. This strategy only works when you have successful developers to sacrifice.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Embrace Gaming, Extend Gaming, Extinguish Gaming.
benignintervention@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Extend Embrace Extinguish
trolololol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Such efficiency, they’re now skipping extend because it takes competency and straight going from embrace (purchase) to exterminate (shut down).
nuko147@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Make shareholders happy.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The inhuman monoliths.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
No more online competitive minesweeper for you!
Vince@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t see it as Ms deciding not to make games, more like their field of failure spreading and infecting all the developers they own
GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 1 day ago
It’s been reported that a lot of cuts to Xbox studios were due to losses in MS’s AI business.
I had always viewed Xbox game studios and game pass as a platform dominance thing. Like, keeping players on Windows/Xbox products and keeping a large amount of the games industry under their control.
In general, just trying to keep players on the Windows ecosystem.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Take the competition rule.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I don’t know anything about financial markets, but Microsoft seems like the tech equivalent of Lehman Bros
Outwit1294@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Not really. If Microsoft dies, the economy does not really care. It is just another tech company. Lehman brothers thing was affecting the financial system of the world more or less.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Lol, what? Just about every single government agency and most of corporate America is fully reliant on Microsoft software for their office suite, database management tools, SDEs, etc.
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 day ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 day ago
Yeah, they are making games, though usually at the cost of the devs they bought
Enzyoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Speaking of, hope ToW2 has a longer campaign.
Enzyoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Control but also opportunity
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
every week, MS announces record profits, cuts devs by the thousands.
Call of Duty is doing gangbusters? Fire a bunch.
Ho-lee-sheeeeeit that remastered hot garbage Oblivion rejiggering is selling like HOTCAKES! Aw yiss, fire a shitload of them.
Maintain dominance, fire some people.
Oh fuck, let’s spend a shitfuckton on AI! That’s always profitable! And fire some devs.
Oh shit it’s a day that ends in -Y? FIRE 'EM UP.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck we fired too many people, hire a third of linked-in.
Then fire most of 'em.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Welcome to hyper capitalism, where the valuations are made up and long term growth doesn’t matter
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I fear for all those studios after the husk has been entirely cored out and all that remains is the IP.
Because that’s what we’re seeing.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The why is really simple. The regular cuts are to keep salaries low by keeping the job market flush with candidates so salaries are suppressed across MS’s competitors too.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
yer not wrong.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hiring a third of linkedin would cause even Saudi oil to go bankrupt.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
don’t worry, their stock offerings - like all the cuts - won’t vest and will all return to the mothership.
now fire this thread