{"id":85417,"date":"2026-07-06T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85417"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:39:25","slug":"catastrophic-mismanagement-and-ai-gambits-led-to-mass-xbox-layoffs-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85417","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCatastrophic Mismanagement\u201d And AI Gambits Led To Mass Xbox Layoffs, Expert Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-layoffs-studio-closures-and-spin-offs-everything-announced-today\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-layoffs-studio-closures-and-spin-offs-everything-announced-today\/\">announced sweeping layoffs and other dramatic changes resulting in 4,800 layoffs across the company<\/a>, including 3,200 at Xbox specifically. What&#8217;s led to this? According to one expert, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his &#8220;catastrophic mismanagement&#8221; of the company is to blame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ed Zitron, an author who specializes in covering the technology space and is the CEO of EZ Primary Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edzitron\/status\/2074201562843418672\" id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edzitron\/status\/2074201562843418672\">offered a blistering take<\/a> on Microsoft&#8217;s management in response to the mass layoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Catastrophic mismanagement by a company run by a sub-McKinsean imbecile that hires other losers to move money around to hide how bad his AI plays are. Microsoft is a disgrace to the software industry,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zitron has been an outspoken critic of elements of AI in particular, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edzitron\/status\/2072703921768837195\" id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edzitron\/status\/2072703921768837195\">appearing on CNBC<\/a> to offer the bear case against generative AI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;One of the biggest lies of the AI bubble is that Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta are &#8216;growing because of AI,'&#8221; he said recently. &#8220;In reality, they&#8217;re using the continued growth of their other business units to cover the meager returns from AI, and the massive waste of their trillion+ in capex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft, of course, is massively invested in AI, and Zitron appears to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced sweeping layoffs and other dramatic changes resulting in 4,800 layoffs across the company, including 3,200 at Xbox specifically. What&#8217;s led to this? According to one expert, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his &#8220;catastrophic mismanagement&#8221; of the company is to blame. Ed Zitron, an author who specializes in covering the technology space and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":85419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85420,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85417\/revisions\/85420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}