I don't think we should give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt with any of these cancellations or closures, they might be in development hell, they might be in rough shape, blah blah. These layoffs are literally happening company wide, Microsoft is laying off 9000 employees in total, sales in particular is taking a huge hit, they're doing this 2 days after their Fiscal Year has begun and Satya has been banging on about AI taking over, I'm sorry but this is nothing but pure and utter greed to save a few bucks and drive that stock price higher after already making record breaking profits.
Anything being cancelled is far more likely because they don't think it will be a huge enough hit to drive their value up, even if said project would still be profitable. It doesn't mean anything was in development hell, it just means Microsoft wants to drive up their stock, Microsoft only thinks by the quarter and any moved saved from cutting projects will be diverted to garbage like AI.
You better be a massive project bringing in the big bucks or else your funding is going to AI, that is the new Microsoft. They're deciding whether to cut a project that may be a modest hit and bring in some profits but nothing noticeable to Microsoft's overall margins or divert that money towards the AI pit which is currently exploding their share price on some nonsense future promises.
No A-AA will be allowed, and even modest AAAs won't be allowed, they'd rather send that money to AI.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 02 July 2025
