Its shortsighted. It's not that Nadella lacks an ego, and the robust financial results his company has racked up give him undeniable bragging rights. Go ahead and pull the arm of the compting slot machine and cross your fingers. You can create the worlds finished machine learning but if you are not getting the input from people on the most used devices then it will gradually lose traction to the devices people do use. If you pretend to be a global player you'd better have people in your Board that are connected to the different regions you want to serve, so that also goes for Asia-Pacific, China etc. So overall mobile operating system revenues are not much more than 1% percent of overall software revenues, and while it is still not small, you know there are also those 99%. How about that time Microsoft took you out to than new club called Microsoft Music -you were dazzled by the iTunes competitor and so, why not invest in a few songs. Satya cuddling with baby Zain. Nadella had to get that message or they will relegated to be the next IBM as others have said. A heck of a way to treat your customers. I hardly read Windows Central anymore either as the notifications are ***** on Android. I still kinda hoped from afar all these years. How long before Movies and TV go? By using the old adage of "embrace and extend". Recommendations to Nadella. For years, he's never given a straight answer to anything, especially Win phones. Never again ! It wasn't making headway. They develop for Windows and they get mobile, IOT, Desktop, tablet etc. I think Windows 10 as OS should be friendly with all types of nature. I still think Windows Phone/Mobile was a better OS on the surface, and on iOS 11 and iPHone 8 I'm finally getting some features that I had on my 920 (wireless charging and email transcriptions to name a couple). LOL, the only thing worth copying from a Lumia was the camera technology. - Managing Regulations and Business Environment Nadella Satya operates in an environment where it faces numerous regulations and government diktats. They dabbled in PCs for a few years, but then got out. Satya Nadella sees a way forward. if a peice of hardware does not sell well a Microsoft ceo can stop production & sales of that hardware. The point is, Microsoft was WAY behind. Yeah, this will hurt them. I can't imagine Nadella doesn't realise this will happen he's the CEO after all. Nadella transformed Microsoft from a stodgy tech giant to a new force in software. Making so many mistakes is ground for dismissal in any workplace. I don't know why they seem concerned about our comments in the Windows Phone Platform, but do nothing to fix what we share. Sounds to me like Mocrosoft are not a company to invest in, either by buying their kit or shares. Next segment is a combination of consumer and professional. The good thing about UWP is they work on any windows OS (see 1.5 billion win10 users on pc) if a new pocket pc can capture some of the smartphone market. It was a damn fool thing to abandon WM10. Why couldn't he have done that? Windowsphone was not about phone. That doesnt appear to be the case. It will go a long, long way. IBM was always focused on corporate sales (mainframes). time to get rid all my microsoft service. Windows Phone was great for a small amount of time but it failed all in all. Surface had a solid fourth quarter in 2013, taking in $893 million on revenue. Microsoft is preparing an update to Windows 8.x that is mostly focused on improving the Mouse And Keyboard experience, not its touch brother. It doesn't pass the Star Trek Tech test: There's gazillions of handheld devices in the Star Trek universe. " Be passionate and bold. If MS has truely solved the CORE system then the Nadellas comments and the rest make sense and the development problem of a "mobile," desktop, and Social (Smart TV, IOT world) becomes trule nothing but a semantic difference in how a user interacts. Satya Nadella, in full Satya Narayana Nadella, (born August 19, 1967, Hyderabad, India), Indian-born business executive who was CEO of the computer software company Microsoft (2014- ). I agree with your comment, but here we both are in other ecosystems still reading W10 mobile news lol Hard habit to break. And theres progress in the cloud as well. HDM would never make a Windows powered device. Maybe it's not too late. At this point, you could say Microsoft is autistic from time to time. While actual revenue from direct OS purchase may not be as impressive market share matters. Please do yourself a favor, and get either an iPhone or Android device. It's frustrating to see for a company I was quite overzealous about at a time. They cancel products and services without thinking twice and assuming that consumers just have money to throw around to buy new products and services I'm making this comment on downloaded bing from the play store on my old Samsung Galaxy Mega. Microsoft reminds me of IBM. Microsoft is now worth more than $2.26 trillion. Mobile is not the biggest software market in the world. I stuck with my 920 as long as I could (almost 3 years), hoping for MS to release something wothy. He has spent the majority of his career working on enterprise software and was only recently appointed to lead Microsoft's consumer businesses. Satya Nadella, Buddhism and Modern Leadership. The high brass at MSFT has to be replaced. 96% of his compensation was performance-based, up from 71%. Quit being so stupid and open All devices to All carriers, Idiots. Nadella has said from the get go that Microsoft is committed to mobile. To assume, you can abandon a cause multiple times, burning not only consumers, but your OEMs and try to shift to conversation to the "future", means you are still out of touch. Even that company has the major stake in that segment of the industry? My phone and PC no longer communicate the way they used to. Let's go back to Windows Millennium - remember how it was a new exciting release and that, even though it sucked, they had service packs coming that would usher in a whole new user experience. Microsoft is still pulling its re-org together at the same time it is changing its business model. There's no reason in the world Win 10 phones couldn't compete against iPhone & Android. I've heard about apps/software that can make an Android look like a Windows Phone home screen, but how much like the original are those softwares/apps? So it comes to the cut from the sold apps, which is for the last year around 10 billion and then also for paying to promote your services (currently Google pays Apple 3 billions, but as it doesn't pay to itself let's say it is something like up to 10 billions). How hard this could be? And there are no royalties. There is only one near-term way Microsoft could save mobile. The problem is that Microsoft earn money on servers and support for Windows 10 pc. When Android phonesand Iphones allow docking to a screen and a keyboard on those devices Microsoft Office might not be the first choice either anymore.Edge browser will not be the first choice on an Android phone or an Iphone either. Now that the dust has cleared on the CEO question, those who hoped for the role and did not get it could exit. They lined everything up to continue growing the phones, but just didn't deliver. I'm done with this. I'm actually considering holding my nose and going to Apple in the hope of finding some systemic consistency. Nadella doesn't care about the future. Currently idk how Microsoft can do to become great again. Most infrastructure people do not get transitional stages or phases. It's tough to grow anything without seeds. Nadella doesn't agree! Managing desktop and server and client access licenses is enough to make even the most diligent accountant break into a cold sweat and grab his security blanket. EXCELLENT POINT, I completely agree!!! Microsoft will be extremely vulnerable without a mobile presence. I am not going to handicap my android experience by using a gimped cortana and bing this go around. They had huge volume of insiders giving them feedback for free. And I was told I didn't know what I was talking about when I have repeatedly said this for the past two years. Once, IBM was known for their computers, but then they changed focus from the individual to the corporation. You're dreaming. Glad I left to jump onboard the Android platform. (I know that is carcastic, but there is a bit of truth therein) There was no commitment to follow through. The common denominator is management arrogance and death spiral sub-optimization. Only some "We told you so!"'s. It is good that he has regrets, but too little --. - Strong Balance Sheet and Financial Statement of Nadella Satya can help it to invest in new and diverse projects that can further diversify the revenue stream and increase Return on Sales (RoS) & other metrics. He's a first grade FOOL. One thing Nadella failed to realize is In professionals want simplicity and with a BYOD business they have choice in the products used. They make great products and then abandon the users who buy them. As people carry the more and more powerful smart phones in their hands and as they wil replace the common office computer this WILL means big trouble for Microsoft in the future. Satya Nadella, Microsoft Chairman and CEO, in a session at the Annual Meeting, told Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum, that a golden age of AI is under way and will redefine work as we know it. Many of us are tired of being abused by a company that used us then left us hanging high and dry. Apple and Google leak like seives and MS know they keep their cache with the big reveals. They aren't the only ones. Published by HBR Publications. But they didn't do that. 1. "People often ask how it's going," said Nadella. Thats my list. I'm not saying developers won't embrace UWP or that Microsoft will cast aside AR within two years of taking your $500. Dont piss off too many partners. Leaders with intellectual stimulation traits motivate employees to rethink prior situations and problems in new ways. Nadella has been a technical, "Big Iron" guy his entire career. Why did they not keep windows 8.1 for phones going, releasing new phones on that OS instead of 950 on windows 10? Rest 80% of the strategic targets are not achieved because of incomprehensive planning, limited resource allocation, and poor execution. I know several people who bought Windows phones simply because they were Nokia's - now they've all been forced to move to Android and looking at their Facebook statuses it's clear that while they get along fine with Android they REALLY miss their windows devices. MS was not in the position to deliver half-baked stuff at that time. That made the other carriers apprehensive to carry and push Windows phones, yes? Also, while Nadella is generally considered to be well-liked internally, he can hardly be universally popular. An original Xbox, 5 different Xbox 360's(red ring of death on two of them(! Look I'm a fan, I was there, through it all, but this last one. is the last one. Frankly, I don't trust MS any longer. If the goal is a unified platform and therefore only on OS shared by all devices, then developers need not develop for "mobile." DO NOT bring back gates. My, how time flies. Groove works good for the time beeing, but it will just last for this year. (That means its a corporate-PR approved part of the official narrative.). If people start to use other software than Microsoft Office on those Android phones and Iphones then well then Microsoft is actually tottally irrelevant on the smartphones and hence really out of the bit data business in the smart phone business. instead of office/onedrive. That is cured with royalties or being good at releasing bug free OSes and apps, Ah, downvoted for pointing out the truth, Android apps did nothing but hasten the demise of BB10. Very few. The son of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella died Monday. The global PC market is expected to contract a few points this year, and then bottom out in 2015. I suspect it will be announced at the right time (not a second earlier) and it will definitely be oriented at corporate use and prosumers. All about the same. Microsoft's handling of mobile will be studied in B-School in the future alongside case studies of Atari.. Its not too late, Satya has made mistakes, but he did launched Nokia X but didn't put enough resources and marketing campaign so that Android app developers like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat could see that their apps could finally run on a Microsoft product. Best bet as of right now. enjoy Windows 10 (solid, great OS), if that's your main computer OS, find another option for a phone or mobile device. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and . Across Europe/Aus/NZ many use a mobile and ISP provided digital hub/smart tv to access what they need. Fact, the Lumia 520 proved there is a wp market in the US, period. Maybe other basic apps like To-Do or even Windows Central? While Nadella was essentially the unanimous choice of those outside the company your humble servant included his clippings have become too nice. They are still abandoning consumers, see Groove Music Pass. Andoroid's dominance as the most prevalent OS on the market was built on that, and the "App Gap" grew as a result of that. Microsoft supporter. Zero trust in that company anymore, zero. The only app I use, besides MS apps, is WhatsApp, if that went I would have to leave as I have family and friends all round the world and they all use WhatsApp. This is going to cost Microsoft very dearly, and I don't think they will ever recover from this. He took over as CEO in 2014 and has since led Microsoft through a period of significant growth and transformation. Here in the UK, Aviva uses an app to do just that, so safer drivers have lower insurance premiums. Me too. MS didn't have the foresight to see that they didn't have to sell the OS to monetize it. I definitely did not replace my MS software with Google. I also own Suface products, and I am very pleased with the devices however I won't buy anymore unless I see that MS is going to support the sytems and not leave me hanging in the cold. Frustrating as hell! Actually after the 520 i equipped my family with 635, 640, and 830. The products they do release these days are pointless - the Surface studio is only for a niche audience, and the Surface laptop is overpriced for what it does. Then we get them bought by HP. With great sadness, I powered off my Idol 4s for the last time last night and shortly aftert powered on my Note 8. Maybe what MS really needs is a complete corporate leadership flush out. They left for Android. However, that was during a quarter in which Microsoft spent heavily on advertising for the two new devices it had just launched. I have not commented on an article here in such a long time! And then they decide to abandon it because they never had the vision of a competeing third ecosystem. Pretty logic to me. Given all of this, it will basically be seen by the public as Yet AnotherWindows Phone. Why? According to Satya Nadella, a key attribute of a leader is to step into a situation where the future is uncertain and create clarity for the business and the people. The high brass at MSFT has to be replaced. @Sean D. I completely agree. This is going to hurt Microsoft for the coming decades. They have opened the door and made it easy for the competitors. Why did users 'go off' the Windows Mobile as a solution? I will never understand how a software GIANT can be so damn bad as software. You know it is a mistake, and you still do it. Again and again, I ran into the same brick wall -- the developers had no confidence that Microsoft would continue to support the platform. Poor marketing, poor execution, and just not paying attention to what users really needed until it was way too late. We know now how that turns out. I think MS has decided to maintain a strong footprint in games (XBox, PC) to ensure every so many years there are unique games that go with Xbox releases to differentiate from Sony. Analysis of Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study. And here we are again. Market share just did not justify the expenditure for developers. Nadella's greatest weakness may be his lack of consumer market experience. That's the way it was back in the day of Bill Gates, but those days are long over and it's their own fault. Once, they held conferences announcing new operating systems and individuals went to the conference. All of this is training the customer to realize more and more that they don't need Microsoft and their "ecosystem" anymore How can he NOT see that!?!?! As you rightly point out, Jason, "eradicating" Windows phones and their ngegative perception was paramount to "hitting refresh". Windows Phones excellent 2013 was capped by a disappointing fourth quarter sales figure of Lumia Windows Phone handsets. We shouldn't actually be in this space to begin with, if you were leading from the front or at the very least reaching out to your consumers and closely hearing what is being said. (Hint: Thats not likely to involve spinning off Bing, which has an important role to playat the core of other products.). Their image is so strong that people want it blindly and make no mistake it will come truth in years to come (20 perhaps). The providers didn't offer them, andwhen they finally didget some in stock, he employees knew nothing about them and actively discouraged anyone from buying them. Some of them will barely break even, and some may lose money in any one quarter, but if you focus on the cloud and enterprise customers only, you will quickly become irrelevant. What's the world coming to,Trump's president and Microsoft thinks 3 steps backward is the way forward.Gave up on VR when I stopped buying desktops over 10 years ago,was fun,but only for 15 mins.Gaming laptops were just too good for the money,now phones are way too easy to do everything on.Can't go backwards,anyone got some sort of Ubuntu running on a 950xl?Sideways is better than backwards. If UWP really means, for the most part, a wrapper to distribute apps in a low quality store then UWP lacks any real point other than as a curated software respository. As a company standpoinnt he did the right thing. Personally, to me is rather obviously simple however to many it won't be. In an act of outstanding bravery, on the same stage that hosted some of Ballmer's most gruesome power performances, stood Nadella, humble and soft . WP8 was the beginning of Microsoft's downward spiral in mobile because while they just started to get serious in mobile, iPhone was already in on it's 4th generation and Android was picking up steam due to it's open ended platform. During his four-day India visit, the Microsoft Executive Chairman and CEO had an interesting interaction with an AI at the Future Ready Technology Summit in Bengaluru on Wednesday. But if they were smart they would not brand it Microsoft or Windows. That's now Nadellas problem to deal with. They seemingly consistently choose to be drunk on designed obsolescence to the nth degree, and people are catching on to it, and switching platforms as a result. Windows rules the desktop and laptop marketatthe moment. All rights reserved. Comments like yours prove nothing more than you fanboys deserve every bit of crap MS is doing to you, for being to blind to act when the time was right instead kissing Nutella's @$$ and joining MS's guinea pig insider program. If people aren't using Microsoft in their personal lives, it won't even enter their heads to use it in their commercial lives. I still use my Xbox for games primarily and entertainment at home (Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc. Leaders with inspirational motivation traits provide employees with a set of shared goals and the vision necessary to attain them. It is easy to show leadership when you have all the information, when the systems work in harmony, and the plan for the future is laid out for you. I get the abandonment of Windows 10 Mobile, but MS seemed to have had pushed really hard the Continium feature. As people starts to use Android and Iphones Microsoft office is not the only choice their. Once they are gone they won't come back and they will bring the developers with them, My 2 cents. So their sole purpose was to select the highest priority ones and focus development on that. But, they still had a base of faithful users that they have completely abandonded which was absolutly the worst thing they could've done. Frankly, he does not understand the "Consumer Space" AT ALL (at least now he admits it.) I just can't see how MS will stay relevant in the consumer space as a result of this, even if they re-enter with 'what's next' and more to the point, they're definitely missing something when a lot of the industry is targeting consumers rather than enterprise. They don't expect any big features. Probably over the years, enough for a decent car!! Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. But I'm NOT keeping using it out of loyalty to MS - rather, because I like Windows 10 Mobile and the phone remains almost as capable as most other handsets out there. Has strong global presence and a large distribution network. Amazon does it. Ready??? It is simple and easy to interact with but Apple as whole interacts with very few things outside its own verse. Now in many countries including Canada, either those users are still stuck on WP8 and no new devices (not even the HP Elite x3 or Lumia 950 been released yet) or they moved on to Android. (He works in for Microsoft in Texas). That is just one long term aspect. The company can pursue horizontal integration to consolidate and bring efficiencies but I believe it will be a short term relief. Exactly! This presents Nadella Satya two big challenges how to maintain loyal customers and how to cater to the new customers. Even with this entire WM10 debacle we never got a clear statement aside from tweets from Joe, nor did we get any sort of apology for leading consumers on. Even though I left WM almost 2 years ago, I was still using windows 10 as my daily drivers on my laptops/desktops. being a Windows Mobile user since the days of the PocketPC, WM4 WM5.3, WP7, etc etc.. etc.. Most mobile phone carriers are bundling ever more minutes and texts in plans because people have moved to data. MShave been announcing 1 unified OS (now called OneCore) scalable since many years now. Nadella is the worst CEO in the history of Microsoft, from a consumer point of view of course. I mean, he could have used the comment section/forums of Windows Central and got all the feedback he needed. MS just doesn't get internationalisation, or user needs outside of the US tech bubble. He learned the importance of daily gratitude from Michael Gervais and considers it . Both Google and Apple have AR that people can use right now in their pockets! Worse-than-expected PC sales would also harm OEM revenues for Microsoft, both from consumers and enterprises. Im not sure its possible to rationalize the existing licensing schemes for on-premises software (Windows Server, Windows desktop, Office, and all the management tools and add-ons). Thank you, Brett. > If you feel that you've constantly let consumers down (which actually you have). Those budget phone buyers were never going to drive app development. This has been the stated direction of MS since Bill Gates annouced his vision 20+ years ago. I had one for grarage band, but I could not stand OSX. I'm shocked how the Surface tablets are doing. Not every one of your products and services will be a cash cow. Google assitant works pretty flawlessly responding to "OK google", unlike the inconsistentcy of "hey cortana" on my Idol. Unless/until hundreds of millions are sold, no one is going to write MOBILE apps for it, because developers have all been burned too many times. Microsoft was plagued by the . Satya Nadella wakes at 7 am, three hours after Apple CEO Tim Cook. . It's very early days for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and for the company's overhaul from a 1990s PC company to a service and cloud company. and programs from a small cell phone can run on a bigger monitor through "continuum" software. I think with the news of the demise of windows phone and groove are the pivotal sign, that consumer focus is traded for strictly business oriented investment (whatever that means). I really do enjoy windows 10 as the best OS for computers. This includes canceling my 365 subscription and will close my OneDrive account once I transfer everything over. Its demise seems engineered by the current CEO. The app-gap seemed to be coming to an end with the acquisition of Xamarin as a magic tool to gain developers attention. Except if you paid sometimes after accepting agrements, but if you did, please tell us what? Jason. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014. "Leaders think their . Bottom line, if you cannot win the war, change the rules of the game so you can define the battlefield yourself. They were right to focus on the cloud and productivity. Things will just get brighter and beautiful after this last major downhill. Whats next Xbox, then Surface? the next shiny object they are loseing attention span with is continuum I'm sure apple and google are going o thrive wit it And with out a phone your AI is not going to be in too many peoples hands . You might get lucky but I'm not betting on you any more. As is, whatever they do, they will do without OEM support at first, which could be tricky. Then they get all defensive when the backlash is real. To be plain, Nadellas new role is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, jobs in technology. Bill Gates will spend a portion of his time at the company assisting with product choices. Too little too late for me. It happpened to IBM, Sears, GE, GM, Kodak, BestBuy, Polaroid, and a host of others. They will fail at AR/VR etc with the same gusto. My view is Microsoft have missed the next wave because the platform they have is peripheral to the next wave. No they didn't But CEO Satya Nadella shared his plan for how. Please. Now how will Microsoft stay relevant when the majority of the users dock their powerful Iphones or Android phones to a docking station and uses big scrrens and use Office software made by Apple or Goodle android. By Antonio Planas. Perhaps if Microsoft developed more apps that worked more like the windows version which has tabs directly linking to NSN, Office Online and Outlook.com it would relieve some of the loss of Windows phones. "We have to get past what we describe as 'productivity . Now, No ******* thing. They should have kept it going until they had something else to offer verus, "whelp we're pulling the plug, go give your money to someone else and we hope you'll like whatever we bring out in the future, IF we decide to bring it out." Youi cannot preach "Windows Everywhere" and "Eco System" without looking at the profitibility of the combined effort. Love their outlook, and onenote but changes needed. Windows 10 mobile finally intergrated with all of it's relative platforms through cloud syncing making it a hybrid of sorts between iPhone and Android, allowing an ideal environment for users to exist in a multiplatform ecosystem. What software do you use for music recording? After all, I'm 'only' a consumer! Going . And, given that Stephen Elop was tipped as a leading CEO candidate, some could be unhappy that their guy did not win. 1. What current management fails to get is that they are focused on sub-optimization. Spending heavily to support your new business model is a good plan. I want another Windows device for mobile but I can't make an informed decison without information. Just as Google's Chrome was a trojan horse on Windows, Microsoft needs to build an app(s) on Android and iOS that consumers fall in love with and can't live without. it seems to me that not only does the company have contempt for users, it can no longer write programmes that work with its own operating syustem. They have only just started releasing a modem the market (apple) likes. I look at this like eating at a restaurant that constantly gets your order wrong. If i can take my uwp over to some other lte device in the next year or two im happy. To hell with MS. Good luck being with being purely an enterprise OS and an office supplier. Strengths are the Nadella Satya capabilities and resources that it can leverage to build a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. The problem with the thinking by Nadella and company is that they just assume that MS can abandon a platform and its users and developers, and those people will then just circle in a "holding pattern" until the company announces their Next Big Thing. According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston , it can also help in bringing the talent into domestic market and expanding into new areas Leadership, Organizational culture. No one cares about that. I wish this information had been available a couple of weeks ago. Speaking at the Nov. 18 MIT AI and Work of the Future Congress, the Microsoft CEO envisioned a near future where jobs are "enriched by productivity.". Which they were supposed to use to build the best mobile platform. Keep up the great work Windows Central team.
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