Microsoft have published a memo recently sent to staff by CEO Sayta Nadella, which addresses the strange fact of Microsoft reporting net income in the ultrabillions while laying off thousands of supposedly “treasured colleagues”. Most of the blog is a gusty, jargony paean to generative AI technology, in which Microsoft have made vast investments, and how it is going to “empower everyone to create their own tools” and create a “local surplus” of Ability To Do Stuff in Microsoft dominions worldwide.