Show Notes
What's going on at Microsoft? Xbox has fired its first COO after only a couple months on the job, and there's already speculation as to why. But the bigger story is that Microsoft is offering buyout to 60% of their global workforce... 25% of their staff! That's a crazy high amount of layoffs, and Wall Street seems to LOVE it.
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