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Broken Telephone or Real Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Today? (May 13 2025)
From what I've been able to gather, not only did Microsoft stop hiring; it's also about to lay off about 23,000 workers in 1-2 months. The debt Microsoft amassed in recent months is too huge to describe (similar to IBM's).
This is good news for GNU/Linux. The 'Windows company' shedding off 50,000-60,000 workers in 2.5 years means that Windows is more of a mess: (barely tested)