Wednesday, August 19th, 2026, 7:22 am
Microsoft is in Serious Trouble, Even Microsoft Staff Knows It
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his morning I wrote about “voluntary” (NOT!) layoffs at Microsoft.
I said: “They can’t catch a break, can they?”
I was using wordplay because it is summer’s break.
A friend asked, “why should shoddy, subpar, proprietary software be given any preferential treatment by groups which don’t have access to the backdoors / bugdoors built into the product(s)?”
He said that “can’t catch a break” looks too much like sympathising with Microsoft.
“It’s good news that the world is giving Microsoft,” the friend said, as well as “its products, and services the
heave ho. What remains, especially in Europe, is how to deal with the leftover microsofters which have displaced as good as all IT departments.”
“Even the idea of a team to support workers to use ICT to their advantage has become foreign due to the persistent pervasiveness of microsoftianism over the IT departments it has displaced.”
Another friend said “it will take a lot of time and effort to get rid of them and to properly train IT people on real technologies again you could talk about a lost generation or two. I’m just glad I started using GNU/Linux in 1997 and abandoned Microsoft in 2002, long before the current move towards GNU/Linux and free software…”
