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Microsoft boss Satya Nadella will earn a wallet-busting $79.1m (£60.9m) this financial year, up 63 percent on his compensation for 2023.

The huge boost to Nadella's pay in both cash and stock, announced by Microsoft last night, comes after a positive year overall for the company's financial revenues - but a turbulent 12 months for its employees.

2024 has seen two mass layoffs at Microsoft, with 1900 staff laid off in January, before a further 650 Xbox employees were shown the door in September.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Each day I become closer moving my setup away from windows entirely. I installed Ubuntu alongside windows but now I'm thinking I want a different distro and need to repartition I guess.

[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Interesting... So according to this ign most of that was awarded in stock. It kind of solidifies the comments about making money for the share holders by cutting costs. Was gonna say would be nice for us peasants to be awarded in stock but then I would feel like crap if I'd get ton of money while others lost their job.

[–] BOFH666@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can't he get the extremely terrible way of grabbing focus and changing z-order fixed? That would be great..

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Sorry, that would mean prioritizing something that doesn't directly increase executive pay in the short term.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Curious about this - you mean in Windows? What's the solution as you see it?

[–] BOFH666@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every single application or popup window will always attempt to get the highest z-order and switch keyboard input focus from wherever you were working to this window.

More than once, this resulted in input into the wrong window, causing problems.

And running this piece of junk os in a triple monitor setup; why do new windows (mainly outlook related) open on a different monitor ? If my input is on monitor 2, why are new windows opened on monitor 1 or 2?

A straight forward install of a recent Ubuntu version is much friendly for the user. But, as stated by someone else, improving the product is not gaining any cash flow.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's been a little while since I used a KDE or Gnome desktop in anger; I can't remember how they tackle issues where user attention is needed on an inactive app. What do you figure the best solution is? Make the taskbar/dock icon visually distinct (flashing, jumping, a badge, or similar) but don't permit focus switch?

[–] BOFH666@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Blink the window-title and in case something like a taskbar is used, use the application icon to get attention.

But don't act like you are the most important and single application on the system. Be modest.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 1 week ago

Come on guys, you can't expect them to take care of their CEO and their employees.

[–] FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Wow, the price of a soul went up 63%.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah but those layoffs saved a LOT of money! /s

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Yeah but I bet he met a KPI

With all the suffering that they've been inflicting upon Windows serfs, he's more than earned it. If it were up to me, I'd up his pay tenfold. I can't wait to see what MS has in store for the tech cattle in 2025!

[–] Nougat@fedia.io -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

CEO (and really the whole executive committee and board of directors) is beholden to the shareholders, not the employees. Employees are not only an expense, but the largest expense a company has.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Employees should buy up all the stock.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, they would only be able to buy stock that is for sale.

[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I remember whn he first came on the scene, everyone was talking about what a genius Satya was-- for copying AWS's business model. Tnen he stated women should not ask for raises in 2014. This is what you get when you put someone in charge who was raised and educated inside India.

This is not India and we dont want it to become like India.

[–] roadsidewildflower@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is what you get when you put someone in charge who was raised and educated inside India. This is not India and we dont want it to become like India.

I think we can acknowledge this man's poor behavior and systemic misogyny in India without painting over a billion people as unqualified to lead or as dangerous to our country's cultural character. I have several of friends raised and educated in India, now living in the US, who are quite feminist--almost certainly more so than the average American citizen, especially given near half of Americans will vote for a sexual predator for the third presidential election in a row.

[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What you dont get is that people aculturized in this stuff see their abuses as good and righteous. Just like 80 years ago in the US husbands thought it was just fine to spank their wives if they werent keeping the household the way they wanted it, and thought of it as teaching them proper upbringing. I dont want anyone raised in a regressive culture in charge. The ideas of an exeutive leader filter down through the org they lead a lot mroe than you'd guess they would.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
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