I don't know how to make this come across as anything other than cruel, but I'll give it a go. Large organisations accumulate large numbers of unproductive people. Sometimes they are unproductive because that is their individual nature, often it is because they are poorly managed by poor managers. Sometimes they are unproductive because entire divisions or product centres are somehow misguided or ill-advised, perhaps even from day 1 of their existence. The larger the org and the better the margins, the more non-productively (in some cases anti-productivity) they tend to accumulate. This was supposed to be the reason for corporate excellences programmes of the sort run by Olson at DEC. I suspect that MS and the rest of the gang are carrying a lot of people they do not need to carry, with or without the promises made about AI.