However, if growth is so much a part of the company's DNA, what happens when it disappears?
Users of the Mini-Microsoft blog (http://bit.ly/bjmicrosoft1) - a site run by an anonymous Microsoft manager that has become a chatboard for employees to discuss the company without divulging their identity - generally agreed that it was seriously bad news.
"I'm glad I got laid off in January," said one user. "I see clearly now that Microsoft has truly jumped the shark and is a company in a long, slow decline."
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
HAHAhHAAHAA
Microsoft will over come .
wow so disgruntled employees think thier former employer will fail.
Sounds like sour grapes.
Granted I would love it if M$ failed but this is just nonsense.
NEWSFLASH: SONY and MS aren't going anywhere. No matter what happens in one hundred years from now if humans still exists so will MS and Sony.
hmm ... or they could be just pissed of ex employees looking to vent out
"The announcement marked the first time in its 34 years Microsoft had seen its business shrink from one year to the next."
Yeah, the first and ONLY time this has happened in 34 years, during a bloody recession, and people are claiming that the company is doomed and destined for failure? Uhh, if this happens 2 or 3 years in a row, particularly during a recovering economy, start asking questions why.
But lets face it, one of their biggest money makers is Windows, but the last few years Vista has been getting an absolute hammering from people (sometimes legitimately, often not, but it still all adds up) however they're on the verge of Launching Windows 7 which has, aside from the odd naysayer, had almost universal critical acclaim. It doesn't matter what you personally think about either OS, the general consensus will rule the day and that consensus is telling us that 7 is going to fly off the shelves.
Doomed indeed.