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Microsoft is Rotting Away

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 19, 2025,
updated Sep 19, 2025

In the news this week, e.g. today and yesterday:

Amazon, Microsoft among companies sponsoring more H-1B visas than before: Report

‘It’s scaring me’: Microsoft employee of 7 years says current work culture has changed for the worse

Vista 10 will soon be "unsupported" (token 'loopholes' aside). Many people will move to GNU/Linux. You can bet on it!

Windows is already being licensed very cheaply (to compete with Chromebooks and GNU/Linux), so Microsoft cannot milk Windows for much money, right? All those "online services" of Microsoft aren't even profitable in most cases.

"Hey hi" (AI)? Forget about it. It's a laughable bubble.

At this point Microsoft is managing to seriously upset even its on staff, which it aims to replace with cheaper and more obedient staff [1, 2]. IBM tried this for decades; we know what happened to IBM. █

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