Indeed. Corrupting this decision would require a coup now. Also note that the decision was made 5 years ago and MS had ample time. And whatever they tried failed.

He probably got nothing, but may have gotten legal threats. Others will not even try to do the right thing these days, because there is no reward for that.

That has already happened and MS did not notice at all. After 2 years, one of their customers noticed:
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/def...

The utter catastrophe of the MS cloud "strategy" is slowly getting worse and worse. Most "decision makers" at MS customers are deep in denial because they do not have an exit strategy. But there is really no way this is going to end in any other way than very badly. MS still cannot get basic stuff right at this time. That simply means they cannot fix the crap they built anymore and the only way to curb the mounting (and already extreme) cost of those defects is to move away to better products.

This is not the first time they made really bad mistakes like that. And they continue to make them. "Security is our highest priority" is nothing but a lie. At this time, the only valid conclusion is that MS cannot do this right and is incapable of learning.

That would require them to make the connection. Most are not capable of that and critical media is slowly getting eliminated.

Form an outside perspective, I think the "American Century" coming to an end is a good thing. People became lazy. Everybody has to try harder now.

To be fair, most people know "jack about shit". The difference is who they listen too and that makes all the difference.

A nice look at German history shows how that works. Companies have no backbone, no integrity and no honor. Individuals sometimes do, but most of them are not in positions to do anything or quickly get removed when they try to. See some late nigh shows in the US for recent examples.

Yep. They are just too afraid to say that.

Well, maybe. Come to think of, Microsoft lost every "war" where they had real competition. Hence them losing in the console space makes a lot of sense.

They are just too afraid of the orange criminal to say so.

Indeed. As research slowly comes in (for example https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-...) it becomes clear that LLM tech is not the game-changer it got advertised as. In fact, pretty much all that smart people have been saying from the start turns more and more out to be accurate. It is merely a moderate improvement on efficiency in some areas that do not require insight, skill or understanding and comes with massive problems even there, like hallucinations and making it harder to educated the next generation of people for jobs that require actual insight. Just as with previous AI (and other IT) hypes, some users are already rolling back to actually working approaches and the impact of this tech on actual work is minor.

That would be even more stupid. All that would do is make enterprises move fully abroad.

Indeed. See also the failure of two of the remaining manufacturing giants (Boeing and Intel). You can now get basically anything better and cheaper from non-US sources, unless you are in the US where the tariffs distort the picture. And even there importing is often the only viable choice.

Hahahaha, no. All he wants is more money and projecting an image that his dumb, criminal self is actually a great leader. He could not care any less about "American jobs" as his actions demonstrate daily. All show, no substance and no idea as to actually get things done. And tons of people fall for it.