With the latest billionaire boom, the supply of islands is tight. One billion gets you a rocky outcrop in the middle of an ocean.
We printed as if the whole Milky Way was ours.
shamrock
1 year ago
Unfortunately these layoff reports aren’t affecting unemployment claims, only 190,000 initial claims this week. Historically low number. That should keep the rate hikes coming.
MarkraD
1 year ago
They’re sorting wheat from chaff…
So, does this mean, when I call MS support I have to wait longer, but likely to get someone that actually DOES know the answer to my question?
You are calling the wrong tech support…You suppose to wait for the MS call which gladly will remotely log in and “fix” your PC with your consent… of course!! 🙂
Tony Bennett
1 year ago
Microsoft in July 2022 announced a layoff of 1% (1800) of work force.
How many more announcements to come?
shamrock
1 year ago
Compare and contrast that layoff announcement with Musk’s get the eff out twitter layoffs. lol.
hamsaplo
1 year ago
Once a month on a Tuesday I get dozens of fixes to my Windows software. If my PC succeeds in restarting without me having to intervene in some way, there is no difference to the performance of my machine. These are “security flaws”. I still cannot shut down my PC after the last fix.
How about MS making an operating system that just works.
I remember 50 years ago being an apprentice in England at a place that made measurement and control equipment. They laid off a large number of people (a critical mass, evidently) who then pooled their resources and built a company that beat the original company. They still exist. I am truly surprised that MS still exists. Nadella’s words are just typical executive vomit.
Exactly. My family and parents have been using Kubuntu LTS for years, and even on old equipment runs just as fast as the first day I installed it. I use MS only at work because I have to.
I’ve been hearing the same nonsense for decades. No one makes an OS like windows. Every major company and government runs on windows. Because nothing else is nearly as good.
They have a lot of updates because their systems and applications do way more than the competition.
Microsoft’s systems do no more than Linux. The issue is the applications. Windows is the largest ecosystem so it’s the most profitable to write software for, or at least the quickest to generate a return on the investment.
Windows is the largest ecosystem because of illegal business practices back in the 1990s, for which they were dragged into court and had their hands duly slapped. But that was a price Gates was willing to pay to get the monopoly securely entrenched.
They don’t do more than Linux? That’s absurd. I used to hear the same about unix, OS2, and now linux. if Linux is free and it’s so great, why isn’t it used more? It’s because it only does a fraction of what windows does and it’s extremely hard to get a lot of things working correctly. The only reason it gets any use is because it’s free. And what illegal business practices were done in the 90s?
“and it’s extremely hard to get a lot of things working correctly”
That’s why everyone uses Windows. It’s why so many use Apple products too.
99% of users are not techies and just need it to work as simply as possible without needing to know much about the technology. Microsoft was the first to recognize this and Apple perfected it.
I was around when windows first came out and was a windows developer for many years. Do you want to know why windows was so much more successful than everything else and buried OS2 and Unix?
I’ll tell you why. Because MS was the only company that understood that you couldn’t just have a good OS. You had to have good applications to to run on it. And in order to have good applications, you had to have good development tools. IBM didn’t understand this. Windows development tools were far better than OS2 development tools. The OS2 development environment used to crash constantly. Visual C didn’t. The windows SDK was far better than the OS2 one. It was much better documented too. And MS came out with word and excel when windows 3 came out. Windows 3 was a huge step forward. Much better than the predecessors. Lotus 123 and Word perfect decided to go with OS2. They were by far the leading applications at the time and the decision killed them. UNIX was way too complex. Windows was far simpler.
It had nothing to do with illegal business practices. If it did, every company would have done the same. Get a grip on reality.
Sour grapes coming from someone in charge of OS2 development. IBM created a crappy OS. It was really slow and crashed a lot. Their development tools were terrible. I think their environment was called C SET from what I remember. You would learn to go to a dialog box and click things in a specific order or it would crash and exit. MS used to say OS2 development success was measured in the number of lines of code written. MS success was determined by the number of unnecessary lines of code removed.
If you don’t connect your PC to the internet you never need any updates and it ‘just works’.
I have plenty of virtual machines that never update and they work just fine many years later.
Connecting to the internet is the reason we need security patches.
rktbrkr
1 year ago
Microsoft is so 90s, I hardly ever think of them anymore.
Jojo
1 year ago
Given MS’s intent to invest heavily in OpenAI and their latest product ChatGPT, perhaps they can begin letting the AI’s start to generate code, removing the need for humans?. What could go wrong? [lol]
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Here come the robot doctors
18 Jan 2023
ChatGPT, the generative AI juggernaut, is getting a lot smarter when it comes to health care.
Why it matters: A lot of clinical diagnoses and decisions could someday be made by machines, rather than by human doctors.
Driving the news: ChatGPT recently passed all three parts of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination, although just barely, as part of a recent research experiment.
• As the researchers note, second-year medical students often spend hundreds of hours preparing for Part 1, while Part 3 usually is taken by medical school graduates.
Microsoft last laid off a similar ~5% of their people between 2014 and 2015. 2014, like 2022 was a extra-big hiring year. If you eyeball a smooth curve, you’ll see that 2015 and, now, apparently, 2023, are back in line with that smooth curve.
BTW, apparently half of Microsoft’s 200,000+ people are outside the US. One might wonder where and who are going to be let go in this round.
Microsoft’s systems do no more than Linux. The issue is the applications. Windows is the largest ecosystem so it’s the most profitable to write software for, or at least the quickest to generate a return on the investment.