Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people

01-_- | 40 points

All microsoft software I used is increasingly bad. Loop is a complete mess, office is a maze of useless options, windows became so irritating I actively sought out another option, teams seems to be half integrated and half not with anything else, and has an interface that is steadily getting worse and worse.

verzali | 10 hours ago

For 30 years Autodesk took an increasingly larger and larger share of the 3d modeling market. Over time they became complacent and users were locked in. Prices only went up.

Meanwhile Blender was the most viable free oss alternative, but it was obtuse and lacked features…

Until it didn’t.

Version 2.8 of Blender unlocked a latent avalanche of adoption. It has only snowballed since then. Autodesk is checkmated in the long run.

So when will a similar thing happen with Desktop Linux? Who will do it? Can it be done?

bentt | 9 hours ago

When will we see this amazing AI actually make MS Teams fast and usable?

mystifyingpoi | 10 hours ago

It seems to me that they bet that creating this conditions only can get two results.

A company that is lean and efficient and needs almost no people OR that there is a critical point coming up that will drive costs down by people less and less

motbus3 | 7 hours ago

What makes a business a good business?

When it makes lots of money?

Or hires lots of workers?

paulddraper | 9 hours ago