> If you let some good people fall through the cracks, even if it's 10%, the company can continue for years. Continue, sure. Microsoft isn't going to go away f

> If you let some good people fall through the cracks, even if it's 10%, the company can continue for years. Continue, sure. Microsoft isn't going to go away for many years, no matter how much they fuck up. They have too many established customers that will find it hard to switch away from them and they have too much cash on hand. Nevertheless, the degree to which Microsoft will be relevant to the industry at large and their revenue levels in the time frame of a decade to two decades from now are currently open questions. And not by a small amount either, by orders of magnitude. And the difference between being able to execute on projects that will keep the company relevant and highly profitable and not being able to do so will largely come down to the collective capabilities, passions, experience, and talent of the folks who are still at the company. And that pool of skills and capabilities has been substantially decapitated bit by bit over the past several years.