Things are not as rosy as Microsoft-sponsored media claims. Bing is dying. Bing is (still) losing money. Offices are being shut down; Microsoft desperately leans on Communist China to gain some share (no Google there). At what cost?
Microsoft is already being politically scrutinised for its operations in China, which has much to do with Bing’s roots. Bing is a censorship machine, too, more notoriously so than Google. Microsoft operates in China under the condition of conducting propaganda and censorship for Putin’s ally. Nice, isn’t it?
Bing’s performance outside China (or globally) is truly appealling.
So says this latest data (screeshot below). And yet the media likes to pretend that Google’s latest round of layoffs was due to “ChatGPT” or “Open” “HEY HI” (AI) or Microsoft, which is complete baloney that we’ve seen in several “news” sites today (e.g. here and there).
As noted earlier in IRC, Alexa was collapsing well before all that chatbot/LLM hype. Microsofters (liars) try to spin that as an HEY HI thing rather than a practical issue that includes privacy and operating costs (Amazon reached the same conclusion while Microsoft continues losing billions, deepening the debt).
Here’s Bing for you.
All hail HEY HI! It truly saved Bing, right? “Google is doomed” became a meme last year.
There are many layoffs this month. It’s very likely Microsoft is next (before the results, due at month’s end). Read between the lines and follow office gossip. We have.
The “IT” industry isn’t in good shape because money no longer grows on trees and companies must think twice before retaining dead-end divisions that can never show actual profit (yes, profit, which is not the same as revenue).
In my last employer (Sirius Open Source) this aspect became fatal and the company had started stealing from us, the workers, by defrauding us. This year Sirius staff (former staff) will take collective/class action against the company for its fraud committed against staff. █
“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”
–Alexander Hamilton
The debt grew by 2.5 trillion dollars in the past 7 months and now exceeds $264,000 per taxpayer. This does not include personal (household) debt.
