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Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions
- ThrowawayB7 10mo agoMy respect for Nadella or whoever among his leadership team greenlit this diminishes further. Having access to an extremely comprehensive technical library was invaluable for R&D and also one of the powerful invisible privileges available to Microsoft employees for those who wanted to take advantage of it.
- toomuchtodo 10mo ago@MS Folks: Can the Internet Archive get the physical media?
- alsetmusic 10mo agoCost savings in the current era of tech: saw off a foot to lose some weight. Tomorrow doesn’t matter so long as we juice our numbers today.
- TowerTall 10mo agohttps://archive.ph/O0Ucq https://archive.ph/O0Ucq
- JackuB 10mo agoI’d like to hear someone from MS if this has any impact, or if the report is overblowing it? Closing a library and pushing something called “Skilling” Hub sounds cartoonishly stupid and disrespectful.