Thursday, July 17, 2014
Might be a good place 2
Microsoft is getting rid of 14% of its employees to satisfy the more-than-infinite greed of stock traders. It's cutting off the parts of its operation that make actual software, leaving only the fashionable and coooool parts.
Since the new Microcool will be competing against companies that already know how to be fashionable and Megacool, this is a highly dubious move.
The good part: There are now 18k highly competent MS employees who will be able to form a new company making functional software FOR PEOPLE WHO WORK WITH FUCKING COMPUTERS. I don't know if they will be burdened with permanent NDAs or non-competes, but maybe the mass layoff will make those agreements practically unenforceable. (Sue 18K people at once? Not easy.)
With luck, maybe the new company will crank MS-style software back to the point where it actually WAS functional. Specifically, eliminate 7 and 8 and bring back XP. 7 and 8 are absolutely worthless bugpiles. XP was a functional operating system.
Well, we can always hope.
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