Microsoft cuts 4,800 Jobs, Half from Xbox division

So the CEO sends an email tell the work force by the 2027 you might now have a job.

So for a year you have to be in this horrible feeling of losing your job.

I just feel for everyone there, the "leaders" failed to see the troubled waters coming and failed to navigate them properly when it was here they took their bonuses and fat checks whilst workers pay the ultimate price.

>So for a year you have to be in this horrible feeling of losing your job.

No severance to pay if employees find a new job. By giving notice they know many will now start job hunting

Source post: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/06/the-latest-in-ou...

Xbox division post: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993)

Meanwhile their software, most software in wide use, continues to be unreliable and insecure

Share holder returns are doing OK tho

X what ? Never heard about it. /s

Didn't they integrated Xbox in Windows ? Who needs a separate console ?