One of Apple's main rivals is undoubtedly Microsoft. In recent years, relations between companies have improved considerably to the point that both seem to go hand in hand in some points, but it is clear that each one follows his own in every way.
In recent times, the Redmond company has focused much more on third-party software than on itself, although it is true that the new Windows 10 operating system is liking most users, it is not just the operating system that they would want and in a while users were even "tricked" into installing it. Ultimately Microsoft is not at its best and the thousands of layoffs prove it.
It must also be said in their favor that what they are currently doing is a restructuring of the company, leaving the mobile sector almost finished, something that was causing more than benefits million dollar losses to the signature. Microsoft's smartphones have never been up to par and now they would be focusing on software for their computers, for those of other OS such as Apple's macOS and in the segment of tablets that also bets heavily.
This Friday, the firm will add to the long list of layoffs from previous years - just over 10.000 worldwide - a new round of layoffs, according to a source at TechCrunch. A radical change at Microsoft that will try to put the firm ahead of its competitors in terms of cloud services, the sector pertaining to Azure and would continue working on the well-known Surface, Studio, Laptop and the like. Definitely major changes affecting thousands of people all over the world and that only reaffirms that the company wants to do without everything that does not benefit it.