If the Kin would've been a success, things might have turned out differently. I get the abandonment of Windows 10 Mobile, but MS seemed to have had pushed really hard the Continium feature. Instead it will just make them more comfortable with iOS or Android since they can get the best of both worlds. A very distant third, and dropping fast. Most of us have probably embraced the new ideas at the Build pep rallys only to find out 24 months later that it was nothing more than an infomercial using many of us as the foot soldiers for the revenue stream. He has sank this company and is now trying to save his ass. AR is already a fail: look what they did with HoloLens, it's 2 yars now. It's now over, and they will suffer the market consequences for many years to come. You killed the original middle ground, you numbnut. Now it seems like they focus on corporate software and nothing that gets in front of the average user. I currently have a 950XL. I haven't seen any apologists here today. Google has failed at various markets. F-YOU MS I'M DONE. Now, I am backing out of ALL their services and I am going to speak with my waller and go neck deep into the Apple Ecosystem. Me, I love live tiles. I always changed phone carriers just to get my hands on the latest Windows Phone. People used to say that about the original Xbox, but then MS went out and paid for great games. For once I would like to hear a tech journalist that focuses on Microsoft products ask that one question. What are you going to do next? Overall, though, I cannot see but that it leads to decline for Microsoft as mobile IS the gateway to computing and the next generations will have grown up using Goog Docs, Sheets, Slides and GMail - not Microsoft's offerings. Updates? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received just below $55 million worth of compensation in 2022. HoloLens is cool and all but its not in consumers hands. By unifying the underlying core, Microsoft was on the cusp of branching it all together but we all know what happened, the decisions, miss steps and burned bridges is why we do not have a thriving UWP developmental uptake. Microsoft has been strident in the past in stating that it intends to have strong margins on the Surface line of products. Before slinging the "A" word around, try doing some research. Do I miss Windows Phone yes, but they also didn't seem into promoting the platform, giving developers incentive to develop apps for the platform, or come out with decent new mobile phones If you get Stagelight, let me know ahead of time because I found a coupon code for all 3 platforms. The weaknesses of Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset are - Aligning sales with marketing - It come across in the case study Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset that the firm needs to have more collaboration between its sales team and marketing team. Sad times. (qi charging, optical user authentication (iris scanner) large screen surface and excellent screen res. Plus, Win32 apps are running in emulation. He learned the importance of daily gratitude from Michael Gervais and considers it . Leaders with intellectual stimulation traits motivate employees to rethink prior situations and problems in new ways. Nadella is a cloud guy, which is the strong growth future for Microsoft. The idea of AI, Mixed Reality, cloud computing, bodes very well for the companies who have mobile, pocket sized devices to leverage. I feel like they believe they're the trend setters of the industry and everybody will just follow them. 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." So seen in that light I think Microsoft is doing damn well by supporting us until 2019. The Microsoft CEO ranks at No. When MS released Windows 8 (desktop) and WP 8. Maybe what MS really needs is a complete corporate leadership flush out. What "unlock shareholder. BTW, if your two Band-2 devices were working properly when you decided to leave the Microsoft ecosystem, how much would you sell them for?. Satya Nadella - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Amy Hood - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Alice Jolla - Chief Accounting Officer Keith Dolliver - Deputy General. 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. Comments . So when people use a device that fits their need it will be apple or android and that will affect their options/choices in the enterprise. I'm getting off track), updated features. Now Windows 10 Mobile too. The only thing I can see is them forking Android apps to work natively on the PC. Can someone from WC actually get a quick interview with this CEO? On February 4, 2014, Nadella became CEO of Microsoft, the third person to hold the office in the companys nearly 40-year history, after company cofounder Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. This has been the stated direction of MS since Bill Gates annouced his vision 20+ years ago. Unlike an outsider, Nadella knows precisely Microsoft's strengths and weaknesses, and has . being a Windows Mobile user since the days of the PocketPC, WM4 WM5.3, WP7, etc etc.. etc.. "Well-being is one of the most important pieces of productivity management 2. He is simply kissing us out the door that rat, Of course that refreshing the mobile platform so many times damage the Microsoft's image and made it appear as un untrustworthy partner for developers and OEMs. Plus many government agencies were selecting windows phones for security reasons. I think MS does have plans for Mobile (probably in line with Zach's overall vision) but they don't like to show devices till they are ready. WC was giving this guy credit for a lot of Ballmers work! Where am I going in the future? What a joke. The main problem here is that people can actually find free substitutes for those. 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. The work that goes into Windows and Office ends up in both the enterprise and consumer/soho versions of those two products. WP8 was suposed to be a transtion from WP7 and shed all of the Widows Ce core code from the platform but they lost all the basic functionality of WP7. Instead they tried the other way around and failed. After moving to the United States, he completed (1990) a masters degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and went to work at Sun Microsystems, Inc., as a member of its technology staff. It matters to consumers, to developers and to windows while ecosystem. No idea. Look I'm a fan, I was there, through it all, but this last one. is the last one. But it should lead the way for its products and services, and Windows Phone is the platform to do just that. Does anyone knows the name of the weed he smokes? - Access to International Talent in Global Market One of the challenges Nadella Satya facing right now is limited access to high level talent market because of limited budget. Employees begin to question management commitment, and indirectly their own future. The mobile division was a money pit that was unlikely to turn a profit anytime soon (ifever); Bellifore even said that they had a PAY developers to make WP apps. Please. I'm saying if you believe otherwise, you're being driven by something other than statistical probability. Microsoft is still pulling its re-org together at the same time it is changing its business model. You're the new CEO of Microsoft! I know a lot of people want to blame Nadella, but that fault is on Balmer. It be a hobby you grew out of because u won't have a phone you need to babysit all the time like window mobile 10. 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. Apple sells that many in 6 months, and Apple is #2. I know it's nothing like an apology or anything like that but it at least helps to feel that our voices ate being heard. I'm not worried about the hardware though. Apple is not churning the same 100 million users every 6 months.
Satya Nadella - Forbes So, if you can't re-model or create a market, you have to figure out how to survive in the market(s) that exist and that is what Nadella has done. It's a shame as I'm heavily invested in the MS ecosystem, but it's quite obvious they are not interested in the consultation market. With MS targeting enterprise and neglecting individual consumers, I just can't see them staying relevant. WP7 kept all features from WM6.5? 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. Now, years later, we hear how much the people in charge hated it. By Antonio Planas. If Microsoft is going to spend lots of money building iOS and Android apps to link Microsoft services to these OS, why wouldn't they do the same for W10M? I will NEVER buy MS hardware again! All their stated goals go out the window (pun intended) when they kill off pieces because it discredits their stated goals both internally and externally. A heck of a way to treat your customers. The rise was based on hopes that the underlying technology will live up to the prediction by Satya Nadella, the company's CEO, that it would "reshape pretty much every software category that we know." . But then Microsoft came back to say "where shutting this service down - sorry about your DRM-laden purchases, bye now" and you said "well, I guess loving someone never means you have to say your sorry". And Apple is amazing but I can't sell my soul to them. A mythical, moving target, Surface handheld device that hasn't seen the light of day yet after 4 or 5 years? They simply do not respond to touch. Don't need them. :))) Are you smoking something? So give them a fair listen. We invested time and money in you!
Examining the Leadership Style of Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella Everyone has at least two mobile devices - phone and tablet and mostly they don't run Microsoft OS. Feel free to connect with us if you need business research. A target for occasionally interesting apps, sure, but an encompassing platform for Microsoft to bet their future on, in the belief it will be indispensible for users - nope. Now given the fact that the future of computing for the masses is mobile I do not see Microsoft dropping that at all but rather trying to change the approach to mobile for the next generation of computing. He's a first grade FOOL. Satya Nadella and his leadership team impressively executed the significant cultural change efforts. A fan and loyalist since the first Samsung Focus, I'm not sure what to think of any potential refresh. He made mistakes. Microsoft has been in the mobile market since the days of WINCE. I only use Cortana as a quick launch for application on my PC. Microsoft may have done better to keep a controlling share of Nokia and just let it run itself. Poor integration of Nokias tens of thousands of workers. Sorry, but that is just a lie. I was mistaken to believe their vision and commitment to consumers went beyond that. That would harm developer interest in Windows Phone, and by extension, the larger Windows ecosystem, thus harming the still nascent Windows Store. Its an encouraging development that Scott Guthrie, famous for his red shirts and a love for developers that is more real (if less boisterous) than Ballmers, will be acting head of the server and enterprise group, reporting to Nadella. And silence for 2 years from MS, resulting in speculation everywhere, like the guy who wrote this article here. Rest 80% of the strategic targets are not achieved because of incomprehensive planning, limited resource allocation, and poor execution. There are many, I can type endlessly about what Microsoft could do to repair bridges. Got my first used Surface Pro 3 last year for recording music and drawing. The case study provides background on Nadella's challenges and context, as well as how he and his leadership team executed their culture change effort. And yeah, Europe has long ceased to be the center of the universe. By 1999 he had been named vice president of the Microsoft bCentral small-business service, and two years later he became corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions. It is that simple. Apple and Google leak like seives and MS know they keep their cache with the big reveals. Contacts (People), email, calendar etc are all tied to MSFT ecosystem and the mobile thread is Windows Phone. - Growing Protectionism - Nadella Satya should hedge the risk against growing protectionism ranging from storing data into international market to diversifying risk by operating into countries at different economic cycle. They get Fat, Dumb, and Happy and the executives spend all their time in-fighting for their personal goals and spend much more time and money trying to LOCK their consumers into their product than expanding the products flexibility and usefulness. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. It is all masterful sleight of hand to distract attention away from weakness in enterprise spending, the genesis of Microsoft's core business. On top of that, all of Apples 100 million phones sold in 6 months are still in use 2 years later. Microsoft supporter. Personally, to me is rather obviously simple however to many it won't be. Are you kidding!?!? In the BB days no BB owner would have imagined they would abandon their platform, then enter iPhone pardigm change. Then they get all defensive when the backlash is real. What did we get, oh we are committed to WebOS and its future. It's around 500 million now. Why did they not keep windows 8.1 for phones going, releasing new phones on that OS instead of 950 on windows 10? Apple has HomeKit, Google something similar, Alexa also interfaces with a host of other services. EU was a good market for Windows phones, so they should have used this opportunity to build and improve this OS. What they haven't done is clearly shonw "what comes next" in mobile. 3. Opportunities can emerge from various factors such as - political developments & policy changes, changes in consumer preferences, technological innovations, economic growth, and increase in consumer disposable income . In the scenario where the mobile is the Personal Computer it is much more important than building a laptop, an ultra mobile PC, a PC anything in fact. the Dell's, HP, Asus, Acers,Lenovo's WILL engage because they will have the opportunity to break open (in the long run) a market that is now in the hands of a duopoly (Apple and Samsung). The entire current management team and board need to be shot. Microsoft's hard ware business is a side business. Mobile is small?? Jason Ward's influential writing might just be the snap of the fingerMicrosoft need to wake up out of the anti consumer mobilestate of consciousness. You'll likely follow phone news less and less. Unfortunately, some folk didn't realize the piece actually addressed all of UWP, not just mobile, The man had more than two choices. Actual sales, not percentages of some small market. Soooo, back out of mobile which is something that literally people in every corner of the planet use, or need, but jump onto some super-niche, iffy at best crap like VR? You're sad now but believe me, once you move to a stable and stress free phone you'll be happy. Very good comment @squire777and agree to most of it. It'll have to be an Android as the one-button design of iOS makes me want to throw it against a wall but I also know the parts of Android that I don't care for and I'm not looking forward to tweaking it in an attempt to give me the exact experience I want. Google Glass anyone? Satya Nadella is a CEO who was born in India. If Google made a Google laptop running android with similar interface to Windows. Windows is famous for still being Windows even on a low end cheap as piece of plastic. As Microsoftenters the Nadella era, its a sprawling company with some tremendously successful divisions and some fundamental challenges. Something we can print from, and something that doesn't suffer from poor performance. They remind me academic profesors in my post soviet european country - they are completley out of this reality and all of their research is just to prove something and than back to the drawer. It wasn't making headway. You're dreaming. Hi Bai, that's a valid point. ng l ch tch hi ng qun tr v tng gim c iu hnh ca Microsoft, k nhim cho Steve Ballmer vo nm 2014 vi t cch l gim c iu hnh [2] [3] v John W. Thompson vo nm It's very difficult to tell what is quote, secondary source, or your opinion in these articles. Also, I was a Band user and a Surface 2 RT user MS has lost my trust as the only things that are actually still supported are my laptop and my Xbox (though they don't really do anything with the Kinect anymore). 96% of his compensation was performance-based, up from 71%. Almost a complete rewrite of my app because, even using the components and methods Microsoft recommended, they managed to change everything from user interface to file data access the only thing that still worked was my core logic. Only thing saving this company no is his firing or him doing at least one thing honorable, and quoting. Slow down development on android and iOS, push out universal store apps first then their ios and android counterparts. Because Gates has moved to Android and Belfiore to an iOS they will soon see what the benefits and disadvantages are. Yeah, it's called hundred dollar bills. Six challenges for Microsoft as the Satya Nadella era begins, His CEO speech: Reading between the software lines, New Microsoft CEO must focus on partners, too, What's next for the Microsoft insiders who didn't get the CEO nod. I was a fan of MS but the end of windows phone and the end of groove music is the end for me, MS have a story of letting people down, and I cannot make a come back to them in any future, they lose me for ever android central, here I come lol. "People often ask how it's going," said Nadella. Good, but completely and utterly useless, worth a poofteenth of nothing unless you actually demonstrate you've learned your lesson by acting to correct your mistake.