Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Take note. It’s never enough, no matter how much you give.

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do more with less.

    In good time and bad.

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    • AreaKode@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Work your wage.

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We’re entering FY26 with clear priorities in security, quality, and AI transformation, building on our momentum and grounded in our mission and growth-mindset culture," Hood wrote, mentioning Nadella’s email. “Both the pace of change and customer expectations are continuously accelerating.”

  Hood’s email, notably, didn’t mention Microsoft’s recent workforce cuts, which have exceeded 10,000 this year even as profit swells. Nadella’s email last week attempted to explain this “seeming incongruence” as the “enigma of success.” Some employees weren’t satisfied with the explanation.

  These people get paid so much for spouting utter bullshit to each other every day. I hope they have moments when they realize the hollowness of what they do.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agreed. What even the fuck is that string of complete nonsense? These C-suite dipshits say it so much, someone is eating it up.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The “someone” is the investors, or generally speaking, the market.

      Major CEOs can’t say they’re taking a financial hit, for whatever reason. This is why I like working for small companies, and most Americans work for small businesses.

      Last company: CEO announced to the board that he intended to lose money in order to build staff and products. Yes, he even included tech debt. The board applauded him.

      Meh, we fucked around and still made a profit, so he gave the board the same report the following year, same results. We fucked around a made a profit. Again.

      tl;dr: Don’t mistake all CEOs for the bullshit you hear from Nadella and Musk and the like. Remember; You only hear crazy talk reported, because it’s crazy talk.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re trying to tell their “stakeholders”, employees, customer, shareholders, what to believe, what to think that’s the bullshit dazzle spell to preserve your suspension of disbelief just a little longer.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    customer expectations are continuously accelerating

    Just make a functional OS that doesn’t get in user’s ways. Those are the expectations.

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    • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Microsoft doesn’t expect growth in their OS offerings. These days all their focus is on AI and cloud.

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They know every single word is hollow. Eat it and rejoice peasant. Are you not filled?

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  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wounder how this person defines quality in their mind?

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  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “The enigma of success” whoever came up with that line has truly mastered the art of auto-fellatio.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Burn the business colleges to the ground

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the hollowness of what they do

    i suspect they intentionally hollow out their soul to save weight or sth

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • cloud services exceeded $75 billion
  • Office productivity software and LinkedIn, delivered $33.11 billion in revenue
  • Personal Computing unit, which encompasses Windows, search advertising, devices and video games, totaled $13.45 billion

  Writing is on the wall. Xbox and Windows made money, but a fraction of what Office and enterprise services made.

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  • voytrekk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is how it has been for a long time at Microsoft. They know Enterprise is where the money is, it hasn’t stopped them from trying to venture out into other areas tho.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They stopped venturing a long time ago. Microsoft should’ve been split up. Then maybe some of their consumer products would’ve survived and thrived.

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  • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Vertical integration, though. Windows underpins office, and even cloud services.

    Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.

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    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t Linux mostly used for cloud services though?

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Xbox is actively being dropped from Target and Walmart, but it doesn’t help that the push is for digital games with no physical presence in stores.

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    • Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Xbox should’ve been the prestige product for Microsoft (just like Logic/Final Cut for Apple) but Xbox itself depleted any prestige it ever had over the last few years.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    its like what AWS for amazon, its delivery/online market pale in comparison to thier licensing to the govt and other services.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Publicly traded companies have to continually make more money than they did last month, last quarter, same time last year.

  Failing to do so means they are somehow “losing” money that is “rightfully owed” to them and the stock market punishes them.

  It doesn’t matter if you’re profitable or not, so long as you’re continually making more money.

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  • DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not only “more”. The company I work for had “record profits, far and beyond anything we were expecting” in 2021. In 2022, we were told that the company made more than in 2021, but didn’t meet the earnings projections. That’s still record profits, but phrased like a loss.

    Not only must the line go up, but it has to go up faster than it did before. Nothing less than exponential growth.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s supposed to be growth related to the things which didn’t progress, so to say. So it’s not literally supposed to be growth of processes, just that stagnation makes things diminish in value, and compared to them things more alive “grow”. Something like that.

      Kinda like inflation. And that’s fine, that can describe a pretty sustainable society, it’s not about consuming more and more, it’s like rotation.

      Except with today’s oligopolies there’s a different idea, that they really have to grow as in capturing more and more of humanity’s resources. The AI bubble (or not) is their most recent approach to that.

      That’s because expectations were shaped by the 90s when many things exploded (unfortunately much of that were countries, also landmines and other expendable means of destruction).

      In the 00s it was possible to create illusion of that explosion still going on brighter and brighter, despite just continuing what started in the 90s, and then to create a few large-scale scams (or madness pandemics, or tech fashions, whatever ; point is they weren’t the same as years 1993-1999) with iPhones, new Apple in general, Google, Facebook, Twitter.

      I’m not saying it was fake or worthless, it was a revolution too, but not what companies try to show since the dotcom bubble.

      So - they are still trying to show that, with kinda rough, generic, and insincere effort, a bit like sex workers in their makeup.

      And they can’t show that without such expansion in width, not in height.

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  • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They actually have a legal obligation to maximize profits.

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    • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Technically they don’t - it’s a lie told often by CEO. But its a lie. law.stanford.edu/…/Fiduciary-Duties-of-the-Board-…

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  • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It goes a layer further than that even. If the rate at which that growth is happening isn’t itself growing then investors start getting nervous.

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  • aramova@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, except for Tesla, how the fuck man.

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll assume that is a rhetorical question? I mean, it’s obvious why Tesla has been going off a cliff and continues doing so

      It was 10x overbloated at the least, it’s CEO is publicly a nazi, most claims that Tesla can do were all lies for over a decade now, the only new design it came up with is the cyber truck garbage container, the quality of all the cars is shit (even though they’re overpriced) with the cybershit being literally more explosive than a Ford Pinto, and now there are way WAY cheaper options competing with Tesla. Then add to that that Tesla just decided to give the CEO 26 some billion dollars because that is apparently okay to do during a shitshow like this

      Anyone still investing in Tesla gets what they deserve, you’re an idiot if you do

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Capitalism is collapsing under the weight of record profits and additional billionaires.

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• etherphon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These people are fucking insane and it’s about time we do something, Greed is a sickness and with Trump in the white house the disease is absolutely flourishing.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s crazy for me to watch people rapidly waking up to that fact after i’ve said it for what feels like decades and was completely ignored for the longest time.

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• Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At what point will we look at these numbers with skepticism? When not one worker is left who can afford their services nor one customer left who wants anything to do with their utterly shit “products” - but they still blow out the quarter with 100 billion? At what point will society recognize that this money can’t possibly represent anything actually real? Will it matter if all of us starve to death and only billionaires are left if the Microsofts of the world will still be able to post 200 billion dollar “profits”?

  I’m actually curious. Because I personally think that’s increasingly what all this is. Fake as shit. Some combination of algorithms, cryptocurrency, dark pools and I dunno, the Illuminati I guess.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Business contracts and licenses are MS’s bread and butter. They don’t give a shit about individuals, they know we pirate Windows, and they don’t care. But if a business pirates Windows…

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  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t say it’s fake, it’s the money other companies steal from their workers by not paying a fair wage being given to Microsoft to burn at the pyre of ai.

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    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, I don’t disagree that that’s historically what it’s been. But increasingly, it seems like record profits just keep going through the roof no matter what. And record stock market numbers. And record everything. Nothing goes down, not substantially. Negative news seems to have no (net) effect anymore.

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  • NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Big companies are subject to constant audits. You, too, can check their balance sheets that are released and scrutinize the numbers.

    While you may personally dislike MS products, most of the world’s businesses and governments run on them. That’s licensing money every month without fail. They can literally charge whatever they want because companies with staff want Office and Windows Server backend.

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• Kurious84@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Societal collapse. Greed has won.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So dramatic, LOL

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• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Very happy to see my employer slowly moving away from their shitty products.

  All they’re good for is stress, frustration, and justifying the jobs of old Sys Admins that sit in ivory towers.

  The rest of the world is moving on. I challenge them to show growth next year.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember it when old sysadmins would remember OS/2, Fidonet and be respectful to FreeBSD (despite not having touched it for many years). And I’m kind young.

    There are now “old” sysadmins loyal to Windows? Something is wrong with this decade.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  God I can’t wait to get out of the grind.

  I’m over halfway to freedom, I really want FIRE so I never have to deal with this corporate bullshit again.

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• obvs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I call for employees to tell their employers to FTFO.

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Collaborate in a few more genocides eh Microsoft

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• burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  quick, shut down activision blizzard king, bethesda, and xbox game studios before they make any more money

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• Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You know, Im not certain, but I think the job of being a cunty CFO could be done by AI… Are you listening Microshaft?

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is no explaining job cuts when you’ve made record profits. You’re just being greedy assholes.

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• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “intensity, clarity, and bold execution”

  Not just “intensity”.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe if they keep going and add a few more words it will magically start to mean something.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I prefer emphasis, highlighting, and italics execution.

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  clicks reply

  Intensity huh? Here you go

  @#$% YOU

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• AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Paywall

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• jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe don’t release an operating system that cannot be installed in a lot of computers?

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