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What the hell would a diversity, inclusion and equity team even do? Not just Microsoft...but any company. Sound like a serious waste of money from the beginning..
Hire people based on how smart they are or the skills they bring to the company ..not how Asian or black or female they are.
Diversity brings new perspectives and those new perspectives drive improvements to a company's culture and output. It's that simple.
Link to a single study I found easily, but there are many more. If you want your company to be successful, it behooves you to diversify your workforce as much as possible on every possible axis.
Microsoft brought ads to windows. Thats some perspective there.
Yeah, I'm sure that's all because of DEI.
Im sayIng that dei is either doing jack shit or its harming the company
Or not every single decision at a multi-trillion dollar company is driven exclusively by diversity? Why would you be looking to DEI efforts to fix this specifically? This is just not a logical leap at all. Complete non-sequitur.
That's even all setting aside that Windows is going to sell just fine and those ads are going to drive increased profits, so this isn't even a bad thing from the MS perspective. DEI has a positive impact on things, but that doesn't mean it magically solves all of your problems from the POV of the customer?
So its doing jack shit. Great choice!
It's not fixing your pet issue, so it's doing nothing? Cool, great argument. It's like saying Doctors Without Borders didn't repeal Citizens United, so they're completely worthless. Genuine question, are you trolling? I would feel better for you if you were.
Okay, how about causing issues with metered connections? They fucked over a lot of people in 3rd world countries who pay by the gig