This is the company that took 5 years to allow you to move the taskbar again. But now that you can, they no longer need the 60,000 people involved in that project.
Its that why my taskbar keeps disappearing requiring restart? A small bar pops up when I press the start button, but disappears when I load a menu. Quality product.
That’s more likely to be from explorer crashing.
Meanwhile in KDE, I can multiple taskbars of different sizes. I have 3 in the SAME row. A tiny one for virtual desktops, a tiny one for a usage monitors, and ofc the normal one, half my screen size wide. For such high-tech M$ would probably need a human lifetime, or 20k agents.
HOLY CRAP I can move my taskbar again! Thank you for letting me know, I had long since given up
If ONLY we had Cut Their Taxes they would be HIRING people INSTEAD of Firing People! If ONLY!
-LITERALLY Republicans who Cut Their Taxes!
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Awesome! I have 4 pepper plants going right now. This has created a glut in the pepper supply for 200-feet around my house. Something must be done!
Yea this is the exact type of shit I expect to read in a serious recession. Great now we have 60,000 skilled tech workers with years of experience competing in the job market that’s already fucked.
I can land a tech job as is. Too much experience for a tech support role and not the exacting experience employers can find with an army of WFH techs to pick from.
Will this make line go up?
Yes, for a short while between firing the employees and then learning why whey were there in the first place. Then the line will go down until further people are fired in the next round. The venture capitalist’s ideal company consists only of a CEO and the room cleaner (because some work has to actually be done).
It baffles me that the government is always pushing AI but also dependent on the job market hiring and not laying people off. They are at odds.
This is simpler than you think. AI is a bubble. It is a giant bubble.
Many people, including many government workers, are getting rich right now by riding the bubble. They and their funders have zero interest in worrying about what will happen when it bursts.
(Also, AI is vaporware. It can’t replace workers in huge numbers. So nobody serious is actually worried about that… Of course there are some occupations that have shifted, but far fewer than you would expect.)
government is dependant, because they want the hallucinating mass surveillance that palantir does, and also its a useful propaganda tool.
Is this the innovation capitalism is promoting?
I heard from a colleague in India that Microsoft laid off ~8000 Indian employees last year (close to 40%). That included contractors. Replaced them all with A.I
I think that’s about to happen here.
replaced Always indians with “AI” trained on Always indians data.
if you work in IT, you really need to think about what kind of job you’ll do in the next couple years.
edit: just to clarify, you won’t be looking for a job because AI took it. you’ll be looking for a job because AI crashed the economy and took the tech sector with it.
I worked tech support for 13 years before finally burning out in 2018. So glad I am NOT in tech right now!
Out of curiosity, what field did you switch to?
personally I’ll probably go into some form of product design or manufacturing.
what that will look like is still entirely dependent on what actually happens.
I have always enjoyed designing and building furniture or room fillers. since that’s a luxury good it’s hard to say if there will even be a market for it.
I work as a security guard in my city’s municipal convention center. City government job. The insurance is good, so this is my retirement gig.
Self employed in IT, nope, I will be fine.
what happens to jobs when an economy dependent on technology is no longer sustainable and bursts?
best of luck to you though.
my little piece has already gone to shit. incoming revenue is under half what it usually is at this point in the year.
Their “buy new hardware” move really backfired on them.
It makes sense, no one likes any of their products.
That too, but also everyone is getting replaced with AI now
Unfortunately, people are extorted into their products.
Since the original post apparently disappeared:
Oct 26 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab said on Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or more than a quarter of its global workforce, as the technology giant looks to contain costs and help fund its massive AI investments.
Staffers across the Windows maker would be eligible for the offers, including those working in AI experiences, Copilot, finance, human resources, Xbox and Windows + Devices, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, requesting anonymity as the matter was private. Units such as marketing, commercial business and security will be excluded, the source added.
“This offer gives eligible employees who may be considering a future outside the company a new choice to make that transition now with support. It also gives participating organizations another way to adapt their workforce to changing needs,” Chief People Officer Amy Coleman said in a staff memo.
Like other tech giants, Microsoft is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI data centers and chips, drawing scrutiny from investors over whether the returns will justify the staggering cost. The company, slated to report first-quarter results after markets close on Wednesday, has forecast $175 billion in capital expenditures for the 2026 calendar year.
Microsoft had 223,000 full-time employees globally as of June 30, 2026, according to its annual filing.
Shares of Microsoft, which had risen about 10% this year, were up about 1% on Monday. The development was first reported by Business Insider.
The company earlier this year offered voluntary buyouts to about 7% of its US workforce, or about 9,000 employees.
In July, Microsoft announced it would cut 4,800 jobs, or about 2.1% of its global workforce, overhauling its Xbox gaming business and divesting up to five studios as it looks to boost returns after years of heavy investment in the division.
“This offer will be available to eligible employees in participating teams in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States at level 70 and below,” Microsoft said on Monday.
The company said it was a time-limited, voluntary program and built on insights gained from a previous voluntary retirement program. The eligible employees will receive details within the next few hours, it added.
and they want to shuttle XBOX to shovel more AI slop.
Xbox is a fraction of Microsoft’s total revenue. The golden goose is corporate Windows and Office, 85-90% of company profits. Sometimes seems they’d be better off just dropping the whole product.
Yup, exactly what we need to fix the AI/Human Slop software they have been spitting out for a few years now.
I believe they knew they’re losing the pc market.
They dismantled windows team like 6 months ago.Edit: I could not find a source.
Maybe the home PC market, but they havent cared about that segment in a long time.
Wow. Source?
Still closed I believe.
That’s a good one
Very good. If it all goes up in flames nobody will have a copy and nothing of value will be lost.
Every Lemmy Linux head. Lol.
I admit it that I couldn’t find a source.
I remember reading an article posted here on lemmy around the time Asha Sharma shared her email to all Xbox employees about job cuts taking about how Microsoft focused on cloud and AI to the point they move around 4k engineers working as Windows team to other teams.
Losing to who? Use any office PC anywhere and it’s almost guaranteed to be a Windows PC.
Actually what’s funny is now that companies are using Active Directory and on prem infrastructure like file servers and whatnot less and less, I’ve seen a big resurgence in MacBooks in the enterprise space.
Yeah, I haven’t used a windows PC for work in like a decade.
Go ahead and remove the other 75% as well.
I’m with this guy
Makes sense, the line must go up at all cost. This years profit has to be way way way WAY bigger than last years, otherwise what is even the point of running a multi trillion dollar business.
Yes, sadly. Microsoft made 193 billion dollars in profit in 2025, and has only made $225 billion dollars in profit this year. The investors are basically starving to death
What, you expect them to eat food without gold leaf?
At that point you might as well try to improve life for everyone on earth right?
Unless you are a fucking piece of shit.
