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Not to downplay the change taking place, but what portion of the work that MS as a company does is represented by the flashy stuff that has everyone calling it
by serve_yay 12y ago
Not to downplay the change taking place, but what portion of the work that MS as a company does is represented by the flashy stuff that has everyone calling it a "new Microsoft"? Did all that middle-management and infighting and bureaucratic stasis just... disappear?
In other words, nerds often heap disdain on marketing but they are as susceptible to it as anyone else. The marketing to which they are susceptible is just less recognizable as such.
- 33mhz 12y agoThey fired tens of thousands of employees, including shifting upper management thoroughly. So yes, they killed a lot of bureaucracy.
- Grazester 12y agoand how many of those people were from Nokia that was acquired by them?
- Gurkenmaster 12y agoThey acquired Nokia with 30,000 employees then fired about one third of those.