Microsoft will slash up to 18,000 jobs by the end of the year. That’s 14 percent of the company’s workforce, and it amounts to the largest round of layoffs in the nearly 40 year history of the software kingpin.
Microsoft appears to have taken back the crown of innovation from Apple due to its’ recent wave of innovations and creativity.
Satya Nadella bounded into the conference room, eager to talk about intelligence. I was at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA, and the company’s CEO was touting the company's progress in building more intelligent apps and services. Each morning, he told me, he puts on a HoloLens, which enables him to look at a virtual, interactive calendar projected on a wall of his house. Nadella appeared giddy as he described it. The system was intelligent, productive, and futuristic: everything he hopes Microsoft will be under his leadership.
TheVerge:
Satya Nadella’s tenure as Microsoft’s CEO has been marked by the knowledge that the company has to find a future beyond Windows. "Our industry does not respect tradition," Nadella said when he was appointed. "It only respects innovation." Since then, Nadella reorganized the company to focus on areas where the company is still growing. Today he announced the emerging platform where he hopes to realize many of Microsoft’s ambitions: conversation as a platform, otherwise known as bots.
