So the goal is to get rid of the people who have all the internal knowledge?
it's more like just giving the employees that are nearing retirement an option to retire early if they want to.
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#12I feel like paying your most experienced employees to quit is exactly the opposite of what Microsoft needs right now.
Paying to get rid of your institutional knowledge and experience is an insane move, especially as everything is on fire.
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#13Isn't this one of the things IBM did multiple times through the late 90s and early 2000s? Is Microsoft the new IBM?
>Is Microsoft the new IBM?
Lots of us thought they peaked during the Windows XP, now it looks like the Windows 10 era will be their peak beginning a long decline.
There have been major missteps trying to turn Windows into a subscription/surveillance product, combined with Azure being a mess, Europe running away from American locked in products, OpenAI losing the lead and the space becomming crowded and expensive, and the console wars being won by Steam... yup Microsoft is the new IBM. Clinging on to as much enterprise and common user inertia as they can while unable to innovate and thrive in the current market. They don't have vision and they can't conjure up a monopoly.
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#14So the goal is to get rid of the people who have all the internal knowledge?
Speaking as a greybeard, it's not really that valuable. Younger people are just as smart, if not smarter, and they can figure it out if I get hit by a bus. There's literally nothing I know that someone younger couldn't learn or figure out.
Microsoft uses React Native in their Start menu because the kids don't know Windows programming anymore.
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#15So the goal is to get rid of the people who have all the internal knowledge?
all the people that knew how to keep Github running and make a clean version of Windows are already gone, I suppose
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#16So the goal is to get rid of the people who have all the internal knowledge?
Get rid of their highest-paid employees, replace them with off-shoring and AI.
Eventually the fact that the US military and government is getting tech support from overseas will catch up. Microsoft is a walking national security disaster.
But all they care about is "line go up next quarter". Their monopoly has made them lazy.
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#17So the goal is to get rid of the people who have all the internal knowledge?
They’re probably not the only people who keep the lights on. And if a few people are gate keeping information, you already have a problem that needs fixing.
How do you go about fixing the problem if you end up buying out all the people with the domain knowledge you were hoping to preserve? That's like burning all the treasure maps before you set sail.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking as a greybeard, it's not really that valuable. Younger people are just as smart, if not smarter, and they can figure it out if I get hit by a bus. There's literally nothing I know that someone younger couldn't learn or figure out.
Microsoft uses React Native in their Start menu because the kids don't know Windows programming anymore.
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#20> years of work at Microsoft plus their age totals 70
Is that ageism? How is that different than saying if their gender is Y, their race is X or their religious belief is Z?