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Microsoft's Trust Reckoning: 9,000 Jobs Cut, Return-to-Office Mandate Fuels Internal Outcry
Microsoft’s stunning $76.4 billion quarter should have been a time of celebration. Instead, the company finds itself grappling with a deepening trust crisis after slashing roughly 9,000 jobs in...
Nadella Pledges to ‘Do Better’ After Layoffs and RTO Mandate Fuel Microsoft Employee Revolt
Satya Nadella stared into a webcam and told thousands of Microsoft employees, “I think we can do better, and we will do better” — a rare public mea culpa from a CEO who has presided over...
Microsoft's $20B AI Deal and Windows 11 25H2 ISO Headline a Landmark Week
Microsoft has locked in a multi-year deal worth up to $19.4 billion with GPU cloud provider Nebius, marking one of the largest third-party AI infrastructure pacts in the company's history. The...
Nadella Vows to 'Do Better' as Microsoft Layoffs Hit 15,000 and Return-to-Office Mandate Locks In
Satya Nadella’s blunt internal acknowledgment—“we can do better, and we will do better”—came not during an earnings call or a scripted keynote, but in a town hall where an employee...
Microsoft Silences Senior Leader Connection Forum, Mandates 3-Day Office Return by February 2026
Microsoft has wiped an employee forum off its internal network and ordered thousands of staff back to their desks three days a week, marking its most decisive workplace clampdown since the pandemic....
Microsoft's Three-Day RTO and Speech Clampdown: Inside the AI-First Reset
Microsoft has begun enforcing a three-day-a-week office requirement for thousands of employees within commuting distance of its Redmond headquarters, the initial phase of a global mandate that will...
Microsoft Draws 50-Mile Line: Redmond Staff Must Return by February 2026 as Global RTO Begins
Microsoft employees in Redmond have until the end of February 2026 to settle into a three-day in-office routine, a deadline that marks the first wave of a global return-to-office mandate Chief People...
Microsoft Pledges to Train 30,000 Australian VET Educators in AI Through New FSO Accelerator
Microsoft and the Future Skills Organisation (FSO) have kicked off a 12-month pilot that aims to inject job-ready artificial intelligence skills directly into Australia’s Vocational Education and...
Critical Vulnerabilities in Hitachi Energy Devices Threaten Global Power Grid Security
Hitachi Energy's Relion 670/650 series protection relays and SAM600-IO process interface units - critical components in power grid substations worldwide - contain multiple severe vulnerabilities that...
BlackBerry releases QNX 8 free for non-commercial use via Everywhere program
BlackBerry has announced that version 8 of its QNX microkernel real-time operating system (RTOS) is now available for free for non-commercial use. This initiative, part of the QNX Everywhere program,...