> Why treat workers right, properly resource teams, and build quality stuff on a roadmap that looks beyond the next quarter when you can just treat your workers, product and customers as if they're all disposable trash.

Because capitalism is a fact, and actually trying to build the best possible products for your users will give you a market-leading position which your greedy competition can't defeat, and which will give you the most profit as a result. Big CEOs and shareholders still don't get this.

Microsoft has a foothold in the market, and they may feel impossible to defeat, but they're not. If this is their attitude, they will lose.

> That's a good thing. When they eventually fail completely and sell their assets, it'll be a source of cheap datacenters for the competition—at least assuming demand eventually chills out.

If they continue like this, yes. But if they just get their act together, it would be a win-win for everyone. The company isn't doomed, other than by its own active doing.