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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hirashgeff" data-source="post: 29872122" data-attributes="member: 15895"><p><h3>Microsoft has been hit by layoffs, cutting across virtually all its departments. At the beginning of 2023, the company CEO Satya Nadella announced that it would <a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-that-its-cutting-10000-jobs" target="_blank">cut 10,000 jobs by the end of FY23 Q3</a>. The bloodbath continues with the most recent round of layoffs affecting the company's gaming department. <a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-announces-layoffs-at-gaming-division-with-1900-jobs-cut-across-activision-blizzard-xbox-game-studios-and-zenimaz-media" target="_blank">1900 people lose their jobs</a> across Activision Blizzard, Xbox Game Studios, and ZeniMax Media.</h3><h3>Earlier this week, Microsoft announced another round of layoffs. This time, affecting 1,000 employees in its HoloLens 2 and Azure departments (via <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/03/microsoft-confirms-mixed-reality-layoffs-will-keep-selling-hololens-2.html" target="_blank">CNBC</a>).</h3> <h3></h3><h2>Microsoft's big push for AI might be the problem</h2><p></p><h3>As it turns out, Microsoft is seemingly making these changes and layoffs to pave the way for its AI advances and efforts. In a leaked memo seen by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-exec-blames-azure-layoffs-on-ai-wave-leaked-memo-2024-6?r=US&IR=T" target="_blank">Business Insider</a>, executive Jason Zander indicated:</h3><h3><em>"Our clear focus as a company is to define the AI wave and empower all our customers to succeed in the adoption of this transformative technology. Along the way, we make decisions that align with our long-term vision and strategy while ensuring the sustainability and growth of Microsoft."</em></h3><hr /><p><a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsofts-big-ai-ambitions-helped-it-become-the-worlds-most-valuable-company-but-at-the-expense-of-its-azure-team-according-to-a-leaked-email-memo" target="_blank">https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsofts-big-ai-ambitions-helped-it-become-the-worlds-most-valuable-company-but-at-the-expense-of-its-azure-team-according-to-a-leaked-email-memo</a></p><p>------ <span style="font-size: 10px">Post added on [DATETIME="UT"]1717731146[/DATETIME]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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