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M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 months agoFunny thing is that is not likely. The shareholders of microsoft (and most blue chip companies) have not really asked for anything other then endless profits lately. This endless drive into shit seems to be almost entirely driven by weird sales pitches and executives chasing a sunk cost.
The general idea is that whoever left behind in AI tech will vanish or lose power the next decade. Like Yahoo and other companies during the 2010+. So Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft compete now and they don’t care about users. Their focus is enterprise market and the future domination.
Shareholders of Microsoft push AI.
Competitor Shareholders push AI.
Shareholders of hardware push AI.
Enterprise pushes AI.
“Innovation” is part of profit.
Ha, like 5% of the time. Most of the time its cluster fuck after cluster fuck and visits from the good idea fairies.
Not saying there should not be innovation, but innovation for nothing but to be able to say you are doing innovation is a cancer.
Yes, that’s why I wrote “innovation” and not innovation. I’m not sure if there’s something that better communicates the Dr. Evil air quotes.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
That’s just a longer way to say, yes, shareholders asked for it.
Just because they didn’t ask it in letter form or explicitely that doesn’t mean much.
Look, if M$ does this ‘agentic’ move and its shares drop 20% overnight, then, and only THEN you’d be right to say the shareholders did not ask for it.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 months ago
No, no they did not. They just said nothing, and execs took that to mean what ever they want. As is tradition.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
You didn’t read my message.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 months ago
I did, and just think its bullshit. Investors have to invest, where would they put it if not in “safe” companies like microsoft?
Its total shit talk to put words and intent into a group of people and funds. They don’t care, they just have money to park and Microsoft is seen as a safe place with a good return. There has been too much invested in this shit for them to change course, but also no alternative to invest in.