Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made $1 billion from the company. Earlier this year he laid off more than 10,000 workers.
Hard to think of a better example of inequality in tech and the wider economy.
@parismarx Also the man who ruined windows and office for profit. He should be dragged through the streets
@kierkegaank @parismarx "the man who ruined windows and office"... I love it, genius. I'd have never thought it is possible to ruin these even more
@mapto @parismarx There’s a subtle difference between disliking paid things that work and having your paid things broken. Like between building a firepit for toast every day and buying a toaster that doesn’t get hot because it’s not a profitable business model for the ceo
@kierkegaank @parismarx let's agree to disagree as to whether Windows 95, 2003, Vista and 8 work, shall we. Then, when it comes to office, I'll limit myself to challenging its stability, in all possible meanings of the word. But again, it's fine to not agree due to our different experiences
@mapto @parismarx annoying reality, but of those unfortunate editions of windows (plus me and nt4) only the first edition of 8 was intentionally broken to force users into compliance. And at that time you could - as microsoft noticed - refuse to comply. Nowadays, if you are tied to microsoft you have no patched options to their expensive enshittification
and their office365 saas was targeted by state hackers to get access to government systems
@kierkegaank @parismarx hahah.. well, correct about windows. Again, subjective experiences, but to me ME never existed and I was happy with NT, simply because it was a poorly disguised replica of OS/2 and for unexplainable reasons I liked OS/2. Not that I was able to use it for anything since I didn't even have a copy of Lotus Notes. It feels so far away though.
