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Subject: Re: Microsoft Laying Off As Many As 9000 Employees
Date: 3 Jul 2025 05:33:20 GMT
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:19:57 -0500, chrisv wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>>Seems like Microsoft’s entire gaming efforts are hitting some headwinds
>><https://www.theverge.com/news/693535/microsoft-layoffs-july-2025-xbox>.
>>
>>Since gaming is the last area where Windows could be considered to have
>>close-to-unchallenged dominance, this doesn’t sound hopeful for the
>>future of Windows as a whole.
> 
> It's probably because AI is replacing programmers.

Reading between the lines, MS recently bought a couple of gaming 
corporations and may have wound up with a lot of redundant middle 
management.