Since the dawn of time -- or, at least, the dawn of personal computers -- the holy wars over desktop operating systems have raged, with each faction proclaiming the unrivaled superiority of its chosen OS and the vile loathsomeness of all others.
No matter how fierce the language or convincing the arguments, however, these battles began to seem somewhat irrelevant to regular working stiffs. While Mac OS, OS/2, Linux and many other desktop operating systems have all had their devotees over the years, the truth is that the majority of home and business users have simply used the current version of Windows as a matter of course.
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The previously rumored mass layoffs at Xbox are expected to happen on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, according to a new rumor.
They will have fired close to 20,000 people all up after this round of lay-offs coming, since the ABK deal announcement in January 2022. Shocking really
January 2023:
Microsoft laid off 10,000 employees, which was a significant workforce reduction.
January 2024:
Approximately 1,900 gaming employees were laid off following the Activision Blizzard acquisition.
May 2025:
Microsoft announced a further 6,000 layoffs as part of an organizational shift.
June 2025:
Additional layoffs, including 650 in the gaming business, focused on corporate and support functions
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"They will have fired close to 20,000 people all up after this round of lay-offs coming, since the ABK deal announcement in January 2022. Shocking really"
It's not that shocking considering these numbers aren't just Xbox numbers as you're deliberately trying to make it seem for some reason.
Interestingly, another no shocking fact is that whenever Microsoft releases its quarterly earnings reports, you're quick to point out that those numbers aren't exclusive to Xbox. Yeah... go figure.
They also fired around 2500 people across Microsoft's gaming divisions and Zenimax shortly after buying it, and before they closed down 4 studios including Arkane and Tango.
I remember Satya boasting about how compassionate he was for splitting the list 50/50 across the two companies.
Let's hope its not as bad as socials are making it, good luck to those that unfortunately lose their jobs.
Could be not as bad could be horrible. But it's Ms so I'm expecting the absolute worst.
Sometimes I feel like they brought in Sarah to take the heat away from Phil.
Phil has always stuck his nose into everything Xbox related when it's something positive or at least neutral but as soon as they went the multiplatform root he's stood back and let Sarah do most of the talking in terms of PR. Now they are doing the same with layoffs.
The person who should be let go is Phil himself.
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If I had to pick two, it would be XP and Mac. I am interested in learning a new OS and mac seems like my the more appropriate choice.
I am programmers since many years. For me an operating system should be a tool to find my programs and browse my files. When an operating system is very visual, with video, preview and animations and takes a lot of resources on my PC. For me it's not an operating system but a useless games.
i want an light operating system.
The perfect system for me is a windows (for games, and programming) with the flexibility of Linux (have a light window manager) and install what you want. for programming and games ;) and resources (ram, disk space) for my programs and not to run my operating system and animation.
linux is good, i do programming in Linux too. but can't play many games.
Linux will be perfect if the game manufacturers climbed on the train,
I imagine a games on Linux games optimized operating system. all resources of the PC will be optimized for games only, no resources needs and tasks for checking the update windows, no more explorer.exe, and services are useless when plays. Only a small kernel, 3D acceleration, network communication and chat (text and voice).
The cards in Solitaire look pretty realistic on Vista
... I've used Mac's with OSX (work and school) but I didnt like it much. I prefer a PC.
However, I'm stuck with a useless 32 bit Vista (OEM), while I would prefer a 64 bits OS, so I'll probably switch over to a 64 bits version of Ubuntu soon, maybe install a dual-boot or something. Not sure yet. Depends on which programs will be able to run on Ubuntu (think Photoshop etc)
I've been using only Linux since 2000 and never looked back. I do all my gaming on my Playstation3. After gaming on a 62" HD TV with 7.1 sound a monitor just isn't the same anymore anyway.
Using Linux has led to jobs for me as well. Started as a Network Operations person, went up to Systems Admin, then Senior Systems Admin, and now I head the IT department.
I installed Linux for the first time in 1995 with Slackware. Its come a LONG way.