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Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft has 200,000 employees? Dang

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And when they start going down financially, they might invade Madagascar or Guyana or something like that as a last resort and turn into a pirate republic, having enough troops. Yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

arr me hearties, batten down the customer support, load the software cannons!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You’ll have to subscribe to a premium Azure tier to be able to use multiple cannons at once. Consider bundling services into an enterprise war package.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

As usual, the Azure SQL server cannon always jams

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

The cannon bluescreened when we tried to fire it. Now its just stuck and the fuse keeps resetting.