https://www.fox6now.com/news/microsoft-wisconsin-some-data-center-plans-canceled-raising-questions https://eu.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/03/27/microsoft-abandons-some-data-center-projects-wisconsin-impact-unclear/82686121007/

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250401PD224/microsoft-shanghai-iot-technology-2024.html

https://www.thegamer.com/zenimax-bethesda-falout-elder-scrolls-developers-strike-action/

https://kotaku.com/bethesda-union-eso-6-fallout-doom-indiana-jones-1851774083

Microsoft shutters AI lab in Shanghai, signalling a broader pullback from China https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3304621/microsoft-shutters-ai-lab-shanghai-signalling-broader-pullback-china Microsoft closes AI lab in Shanghai, signaling... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-scales-back-data-center-122937917.html every bubble comes to an end

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/user-research-workers-at-activision-unionize

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2025/03/xboxs-perfect-dark-co-developer-announces-several-layoffs

Game over: The epidemic of mass layoffs in the video game industry https://depauliaonline.com/75801/opinions/game-over-the-epidemic-of-mass-layoffs-in-the-video-game-industry/

https://qz.com/microsoft-lays-off-2000-employees-1851768037

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-performance-management-low-performers-country-club-2025-2

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/2025/03/04/CAMTEYWZCZFLFD6E3NLPTKVUAM/?outputType=amp

https://www.peoplemattersglobal.com/article/performance-management/opinion-in-2025-even-the-best-employees-are-getting-fired-44568

billions down the drain https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-ki-ling-skype/

escalate https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/newsletters/tech-top-5/infosys-layoffs-escalate-nvidias-profit-soars/articleshow/118606323.cms

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/microsoft-shelves-ai-data-center-deals-in-sign-of-potential-oversupply-says-analyst-1863205 ... — read more 

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/02/25/meta-microsoft-neighborhood-buddies.html

It also publicly admits "AI" was mostly hype.

"By this measure, AI has yet to actually do a thing for the world economy." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/24/microsoft-plays-down-ai-bubble-cancels-data-center-leases/

https://futurism.com/microsoft-ceo-ai-generating-no-value

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-forecast-shows-shift-from-microsoft-to-softbank

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/infosys-hr-head-labour-department-is-in-touch-with-the-company-and-infosys-is-/articleshow/118416474.cms

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/microsoft-layoffs-hitting-cloud-solution-architects-customer-roles

https://www.india.com/business/infosys-layoffs-narayan-murthysudha-rohan-microsoft-wipro-cognizant-tata-consultancy-services-tcs-infosys-wipro-hcltech-tech-mahindra-larsen-toubro-infotech-lti-7628953/

IMHO….It has nothing to do with performance, not really. MS needs to recoup revenue as the wallet is a little light. Stacks and stacks of cash have been thrown at AI and quantum research. The cash reserves are a little light. Any company who... — read more 

http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Possibly_a_Third_Round_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_in_2025_Clo.shtml

https://campustechnology.com/Articles/2025/02/18/Microsoft-Stepping-Away-from-HoloLens-Mixed-Reality-Hardware.aspx

https://www.cfodive.com/news/meta-microsoft-workday-join-latest-wave-of-tech-layoffs/740171/ but the same publishers soon later confirmed mass layoffs totally unrelated to this "performance" claim

"The lesson from these layoffs is that simply doing your job well isn't enough. You can toil away for decades doing a fine job and still get caught up in these... — read more 

I’ve been reading blog after blog of the same thing in different words. Short version. Many people feel like its designed extortion over time. Azure\intune is so awesome, I wished we’d moved everything there sooner. later in time. What do... — read more 

http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/15/Microsoft_Has_Only_17_482_Million_Left_Cash_on_Hand_Sank_40_Bil.shtml

Failing product/division at Microsoft https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/1il8178/wife_cried_today/

https://rcpmag.com/Articles/2025/02/14/Microsoft-Confirms-End-of-HoloLens-Mixed-Reality-Hardware.aspx

VEst date 02/15/25 is a saturday, 02/17(monday) is holiday, if I quit on 02/18, do my 02/15 RSU vest? or I lose the vesting?

https://www.fastcompany.com/91276893/meta-laid-off-low-performers-defend-themselves-on-linkedin-and-reddit

https://www.businessinsider.com/low-performer-label-meta-microsoft-layoffs-impact-recruiters-experts-2025-1

(not paying OpenAI to pretend to be client) https://www.maketecheasier.com/microsoft-365-increases-price-dropping-vpn/ "Circular spending"... — read more 

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsofts-termination-letter-underperforming-employees-guise-corporate-cost-cutting-1730657 Microsoft's Debt Surged by More Than 6,000,000,000 Dollars in Just 3 Months... — read more 

I’m an long time Microsoftie advocate and was an FTE for over 10 years before I left MS long ago. During that time, when I was first hired on in 2000, there was a feeling of pride, a safety net, a bragging right of being a MS employee of “Microsoft... — read more 

The Washington Post, citing two unnamed people, reported representatives from DOGE were using AI through Microsoft’s Azure service to go through data with “personally identifiable information for people who manage grants, as well as sensitive... — read more