Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession

echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why shareholders keep this guy’s CEO he’s absolutely terrible at his job

  What are you talking about? Under this guy’s tenure the MSFT share price skyrocketed. What else would shareholders care about? He’s doing an excellent job, as far as they’re concerned.

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  • Sineljora@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IMO, Satya isn’t the same anymore. His disabled child died, and he gave a speech about pushing forward to investors at the time but no longer cares about accessibility. Now, he’s got ai-induced psychosis so he doesn’t care about azure, office, Xbox, linkedin, GitHub, etc. Unless it has Copilot in it, because he’s invested in openAI.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mate, have you seen the valuation of companies handling AI or hardware that AI requires?

      Shareholders are creaming their pants any time someone says “agentic” or “AI”.

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh dear. That sounds like a super-villain origin story. “I just wanted to develop an AI capable of bringing back my dead child to life!” Another broken soul with too much power…

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• froh42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you wishing back for Ballmer? IMO things were even worse, then.

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• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But engineer don’t make dividends go up. Engineer know to reinvest, and stock holder sad not get more money.

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• oppy1984@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s generating profit, that’s all that matters to the shareholders.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is he?

    No one is buying the Xbox, quite possibly because no one can tell if it’s a new generation or not. I don’t think any AI company has yet posted a profit. Market share for Linux has increased in the last 2 years and most of that is from people moving away from Windows.

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    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you being serious?

      Have a look at the MSFT share price in 2014 when he took over ~$45/share and now ~$470/share - of course investors love him, he’s 10x their investments since he was appointed.

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      • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Share price and profit are two very different beasts and only really have a loose connection to one another. Plenty of companies lose money left and right but still have high share prices.

        The share price is just what the stock market feels a company is worth. It’s almost 100% vibe-based.

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    • oppy1984@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Their business is B2B now. Nadella is focused on that, gaming is a nice side business to him, and the home user wasn’t profitable enough to care about keeping.

      Right now my fortune 500 employer is all in on Microsoft, they pay for around 200,000 Microsoft business licenses and about 2/3’s of those PCs also have a 365 business license, plus they have Microsoft servers with their own individual licenses in every state and almost every country. And that’s just one company, think about how many companies are all in on Microsoft and you can see why B2B is what he cares about.

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Their business is B2B now.

        That and mass surveillance such as with Palestine and Microslop’s Azure used by Israel to obscure individual culpability in deciding who to murder next.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Their business is by a vast majority in the cloud now.

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    • ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Midjourney is profitable.

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• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Didn’t he start Azure? Like the reason MS have so much money still.

  At making shareholder value he seems pretty good at that and that’s all that matters.

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didn’t he start Azure?

    Na, that was Dave Cutler.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not correct either. Maybe my wording was poor, several people were there at the start of Azure.

      Nadella is the reason it’s the second largest cloud provider next to AWS.

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      • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But he didn’t “start” it, at least not according to Wikipedia

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, he seems really, really bad at this.

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