There is no explaining job cuts when you’ve made record profits. You’re just being greedy assholes.
These people are fucking insane, Greed is a sickness and with Trump in the white house the disease is absolutely flourishing.
Societal collapse. Greed has won.
So dramatic, LOL
Take note. It’s never enough, no matter how much you give.
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.
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.
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.
- 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
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