Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?

Question

Why are they behaving like this since last year (trying very hard to burn themselves to the ground)Latest example:Microsoft Office renamed to &ldquo;Microsoft 365 Copilot app&rdquo; (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496465)Not only the rename is absurd, but the page (office.com) looks heavily vibe-coded

throwawayms4 · Accepted Answer

Broken incentives, clueless trend-following leaders.
For the last year or so all orders from leadership have been "build more AI, show AI usage" even above things like stability and reliability.
There was no recognition from leadership over what use cases worked or not, and they appeared to believe their own hype.
To complement this, there is near to no long-term accountability for upper leadership for failure, so even as features underperform and strategy turns out to be a flop, they will continue to make millions a year, having layoffs every 6 months, and then acting surprised pikachu when morale is down and top engineers are looking to the door, since salary is barely competitive even if you are a top performer getting special stock awards.

ferguess_k · Answer

I'm more interested in knowing the status of the kernel team. Is there any chance that there is an outflow of talents so they are OK to hire people who are not exactly qualified 100% for professional kernel development? So that I might get a chance to snug in...:P

VirusNewbie · Answer

I interviewed at Azure the same time I interviewed at GCP and the former was an absolute shit show. It was comically bad.

kvemkon · Answer

Since more than a year no images available. Now the page gone completely: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...

HackerThemAll · Answer

Nobody wants to use Copilot voluntarily, therefore it's going to be pushed down deep into Microsoft customers' throats.