Microsoft CEO suggests recent trimps in internal memorandum

Despite the status of Microsoft number 2 as the most valuable company in the world, behind Nvidia, with A Market price of $ 3.8 trillionTech giant has closed more than 15,000 people this year.

One in Employees memo On Thursday morning, publicly released on Microsoft’s corporate blog, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently addressed the job cut, which calls the decisions of “the most difficult” he had to do.

Nadella wrote, “Before anything, I want to talk to what is overshadowing me, and I know that many of you are thinking about it: recently the job is ending.”

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Nadella admitted that “uncertainty and the incompatibility of that time which we are” in “but noticed that Microsoft is” prosperous “with extraordinary market performance, strategy and development. For example, Microsoft’s share price increased. All -time highEnd the closing value Over $ 500 For the first time in the beginning of this month.

Nadella also said that the company is investing more in AI Infrastructure than ever, Put more than $ 80 billion In AI in the financial year ending in June.

“Microsoft is being identified and was being rewarded at the ever seen levels,” Nadella wrote. “And yet, at the same time, we have trimmed. It is a success puzzle in an industry that has no franchise value.”

Nadella explained the disconnect between the rich financial and the trimming, saying that “progress is not linear” and that it is “sometimes inconsistent, and always demands.” He said that the headcon at Microsoft “is relatively unchanged” because the company continues to hire new workers, and does not promise that there will be not much pruning in the future. Microsoft reports employment 228,000 workers Until June 2024.

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In Memo, Nadella redefined Microsoft’s mission from “software factory” to “intelligence engine”. He said that the company’s future opportunity was to bring AI to all eight billion people on the planet.

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Meanwhile, Microsoft has created Huge profits Recently, with its net income, its last three fiscal quarters are equal to about 75 billion dollars. For the first three months of 2025, the company’s advantage Gone to $ 25.8 billion18%from last year, defeating Wall Street’s expectations.

Microsoft is stock Up to 22% year to date.

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