Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 people as AI spending climbs. Why I think buyouts are a blunt instrument, and why the real prize for any company reshaping itself for AI is the speed of its decisions.
Posts Tagged: microsoft
“Error: -1”, a trip down memory lane
I gave a talk last night to Austin CTO Club, where I made a reference to “Error: -1” … only to realize right away that I had dated myself in doing so 🙂 The audience was kind enough to go with it but I had to explain afterwards what it meant. And that compelled me […]
Build vs Buy in the AI Era
As AI continues to permeate every facet of software engineering, leaders are increasingly confronted with a pivotal decision: Should we build our own AI tools or buy existing solutions? This isn’t just a technical choice; it’s a strategic one that can significantly impact our teams, products, and bottom line. With the upcoming CTO ATX meetup […]
Implementing a “Login with Microsoft” for a web app
I’ve had a go recently at looking at Spring Boot OAuth2 and how easy it is implementing a sign in with Microsoft using OAUTH2. My findings were surprising and justified I think this blog post. More importantly I think it explains why Microsoft has such little “pull” with developers nowadays. (Sure they are trying to […]
Marketing Automation Companies Have a Lot to Learn from Tech World
As you might know by now, I’ve adjusted a bit my career recently. My core experience is a techie in the online advertising world — and as of recently I’ve moved into an adjacent segment: digital marketing. It sounds like a drastic move, but to be honest, when you look closely, it’s actually the same […]
Of CERES and Naming Your Products
OK, so this is a bit of a trip back in time, in the early days of Cognitive Match, when we started building our system. As it happens during such times, often one encounters the matter of giving the systems a name — for once it makes it more precise to refer to a system […]
(Anti)Advert for Microsoft Windows? :)
In case you can’t read it, the error message reports that the Video Player has encountered and error and will be shut down. Oh, and apparently the icons on the desktop need cleaning up — well done, Microsoft!
What Most Schools Don’t Teach…
If you work in IT, you have probably by now have seen the famous video on YouTube labelled “What most schools don’t teach” — where Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and a few other prominent figures are talking about how easy it is to program, and how only 10% of the USA schools teach programming. It […]
Use MS Powerpoint to Draw Diagrams
OK, so this post probably looks odd in the context of my blog — since most of the content so far is made up of (rather silly) pictures of me mixed up with technical content targeted at developers out there. However, if you are more than a coder and you actually get involved in designing […]
Of Java and Assembler
The title would no doubt puzzle quite a few of you — after all I’m putting in the same sentence a low-level, processor-specific language (for no better term for “assembler” — I know, I know, I know, “it’s not really a language”, right?) with a rather high-level, even platform-independent language like Java. So, right away […]
