Microsoft boss Satya Nadella will earn a wallet-busting $79.1m (£60.9m) this financial year, up 63 percent on his compe…

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella will earn a wallet-busting $79.1m (£60.9m) this financial year, up 63 percent on his compensation for 2023.

The huge boost to Nadella’s pay in both cash and stock, announced by Microsoft last night, comes after a positive year overall for the company’s financial revenues - but a turbulent 12 months for its employees.

2024 has seen two mass layoffs at Microsoft, with 1900 staff laid off in January, before a further 650 Xbox employees were shown the door in September.

  • @BOFH666
    7•1 month ago

    Can’t he get the extremely terrible way of grabbing focus and changing z-order fixed? That would be great…

    • @[email protected]English
      9•1 month ago

      Sorry, that would mean prioritizing something that doesn’t directly increase executive pay in the short term.

    • @egrets
      1•1 month ago

      Curious about this - you mean in Windows? What’s the solution as you see it?

      • @BOFH666
        5•1 month ago

        Every single application or popup window will always attempt to get the highest z-order and switch keyboard input focus from wherever you were working to this window.

        More than once, this resulted in input into the wrong window, causing problems.

        And running this piece of junk os in a triple monitor setup; why do new windows (mainly outlook related) open on a different monitor ? If my input is on monitor 2, why are new windows opened on monitor 1 or 2?

        A straight forward install of a recent Ubuntu version is much friendly for the user. But, as stated by someone else, improving the product is not gaining any cash flow.

        • @egrets
          2•1 month ago

          It’s been a little while since I used a KDE or Gnome desktop in anger; I can’t remember how they tackle issues where user attention is needed on an inactive app. What do you figure the best solution is? Make the taskbar/dock icon visually distinct (flashing, jumping, a badge, or similar) but don’t permit focus switch?

          • @BOFH666
            2•1 month ago

            Blink the window-title and in case something like a taskbar is used, use the application icon to get attention.

            But don’t act like you are the most important and single application on the system. Be modest.