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"As Microsoft’s video game division undergoes the worst wave of job cuts in its history, [Microsoft chairman and CEO] Satya Nadella praises the Xbox purge and the 3,200 layoffs."

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Yeah, I'm pretty much done with these companies. There are plenty of other games to play, not least the enormous backlog from all those Steam sales and free weekly games. I'd be lying if I said I'll definitely be able to resist Fable, though. (That's what I meant to say, not whatever I just posted)

Praise on stage, silence on paper. Microsoft's annual report for the year that included the ~9,000 cuts of July 2025 uses "restructuring" zero times and never says workforce reduction. Severance appears as an allocated cost, listed next to facilities and legal.