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Trying to run a video game business during these tricky times while the company that owns you is directly contributing to making these tricky times so tricky seems like a dumb way to do this, I don't know.

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yeah it really is an impossible situation to be in working for a personal computing department of a company that wants to make personal computing a thing of the past

With layoffs last year, then removing previous leadership Phil Spencer and also scrapping their new leadership with Sarah Bond, then bringing in new new leader Asha Sharma and she overhauled the executive team with five new leaders, that big reset just didn't work so they need another reset.

In a way I can kind of empathize, really. "We have hired you to build a strategy to make sure this division succeeds" "Cool. Hey, could you stop doing the things that make it impossible for this division to succeed?" "Pffff. Of course not. Make it work anyway"

Taking zero responsibility for pushing $250+ BILLION (and counting) into the "make memory and storage inaccessible for everyone but the richest ten companies" square.