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Microsoft lays off portion of workforce as part of ‘realignment’

firstSpeaker 4y ago
As far as I heard from managers internally some of the big decisions, e.g office and so on have a hiring freeze at least till end of the year.
pjmlp 4y ago
I guess WinUI 3.0 now will take even longer to reach feature parity with either UWP or WPF.
- 202206241203 4y ago
  Hopefully the cuts are in the Electron integration department.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    It would be great, at least some teams have been migrating to WebView2.
- hulitu 4y ago
  Reaching feature parity with Win 3.0 will be an achievement. But i don't hold my breath.
- cududa 4y ago
  If you bothered to read to the end of the third sentence you'd have seen the layoffs effect the Customer and Partner Solutions and Consulting orgs. Also UWP never even had feature parity with WPF or Win32. Look into Platform Invocation (PInvoke) which allows interop between WinUI 3 and Win32 (WinForms, MFC and even WPF) until there's full XAML feature parity.
systemBuilder 4y ago
Probably better to discuss it at : https://www.thelayoff.com/microsoft https://www.thelayoff.com/microsoft Once upon a time an even better place for such discussions was : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
xupybd 4y ago
This can't be a good sign for the rest of us in tech. I don't like to think about my chances of finding anything else should my current job disappear. With a wife, child and mortgage it's a little scary.
Andaith 4y ago
As I understand it, nobody(G8, lets say) is really in recession. Yet all the big tech companies have hiring freezes or layoffs. I wonder why? Interest rates mean debt repayments are increasing, thus they need to cut costs elsewhere? Something Else?
- _8j50 4y ago
  Appease shareholders. Do something so they don't sell because of recession fears. No one is in recession now
cududa 4y ago
Microsoft does a big reorg of one of a few orgs like legal, marketing, general ops, sales, solutions engineering, customer service, etc at the end of almost every fiscal year. Was just solutions engineering and consulting's turn now. Satya seems to have opted to just sort of reorg in chunks every few years which I kind of like as opposed to the yearly stack ranking performance induced reorgs that just lead to obscenely short term thinking. As a former Microsoft employee, the July reorgs were completely expected (and use to be much broader in scale). Not much to read into here.

As far as I heard from managers internally some of the big decisions, e.g office and so on have a hiring freeze at least till end of the year.

pjmlp 4y ago

I guess WinUI 3.0 now will take even longer to reach feature parity with either UWP or WPF.

202206241203 4y ago
Hopefully the cuts are in the Electron integration department.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  It would be great, at least some teams have been migrating to WebView2.
hulitu 4y ago
Reaching feature parity with Win 3.0 will be an achievement. But i don't hold my breath.
cududa 4y ago
If you bothered to read to the end of the third sentence you'd have seen the layoffs effect the Customer and Partner Solutions and Consulting orgs. Also UWP never even had feature parity with WPF or Win32. Look into Platform Invocation (PInvoke) which allows interop between WinUI 3 and Win32 (WinForms, MFC and even WPF) until there's full XAML feature parity.

systemBuilder 4y ago

Probably better to discuss it at : https://www.thelayoff.com/microsoft https://www.thelayoff.com/microsoft Once upon a time an even better place for such discussions was : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

xupybd 4y ago

This can't be a good sign for the rest of us in tech. I don't like to think about my chances of finding anything else should my current job disappear. With a wife, child and mortgage it's a little scary.

Andaith 4y ago

As I understand it, nobody(G8, lets say) is really in recession. Yet all the big tech companies have hiring freezes or layoffs. I wonder why? Interest rates mean debt repayments are increasing, thus they need to cut costs elsewhere? Something Else?

_8j50 4y ago
Appease shareholders. Do something so they don't sell because of recession fears. No one is in recession now

cududa 4y ago

Microsoft does a big reorg of one of a few orgs like legal, marketing, general ops, sales, solutions engineering, customer service, etc at the end of almost every fiscal year. Was just solutions engineering and consulting's turn now. Satya seems to have opted to just sort of reorg in chunks every few years which I kind of like as opposed to the yearly stack ranking performance induced reorgs that just lead to obscenely short term thinking. As a former Microsoft employee, the July reorgs were completely expected (and use to be much broader in scale). Not much to read into here.