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Microsoft to lay off about 9,000 employees in latest round [Seattle Times] (www.seattletimes.com)
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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The end of Xbox consoles

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 7 points 3 days ago

It's been a slow, 15 year suffocation.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe I was stupid to believe that they'll slow down the Xbox console to go extremely hard on Xbox/PC Game Pass and push to be the Netflix of PC games.

But these are software layoffs.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

You need software to sell hardware...