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$96.5 million for Nadella. Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs
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Microsoft has around 230 000 employees.
That means that 1 Microsoft employee in 2025 earned for company roughly $1 280 454
That is how monopoly looks like.
Microsoft would be better up split into multiple companies. They’re killing windows with lack of innovation. They’re also putting Xbox slowly out of business. They have no phone on the market and they barely have a tablet with the surface line. They also stopped making peripherals.
I think the current CEO is just trying to make Microsoft into the next lumbering IBM.
Microsoft Corporation's Revenue by Segment
I doubt they care about consumers, it makes them pennies compared to servers and cloud.
source: https://bullfincher.io/companies/microsoft-corporation/revenue-by-segment
All the more reason to spin off their consumer products divisions rather than killing them.
Also it’s so gross that they own LinkedIn and GitHub now.
they're not killing them, they're monopolizing what they have by adding mandatory cloud like apple and google so you have no way to switch back, sure they will lose customers but those who will stay won't leave anymore
Windows needed to die a long time ago.... so whatever. Same with XBOX and their phone, just a waste of time. Microsoft never made a product worth owning.
But the days of Gates saying to every department "how does this sell more windows" are long gone.
Many years ago a Microsoft team told me that the only thing important was data. The more the better. Windows wasn't important, products were not important. Harvesting data and creating services was the future and nothing else mattered.
Android and iOS have made companies fortunes. But keep telling yourself Windows Phone needed to die.
Same with game consoles. Switch I & II have made Nintendo a ton of money.
These Microsoft products would have been profitable in the hands of a company that actually cared about them.
Yeah but they were microsoft. So they sucked. That's how it works. Maybe in the hands of someone else it wouldn't have been Microsoft crap.