That may not be the case. I am PISSED. It is sticking to the same game that Microsoft already lost. Now all you do is to carve "Microsoft was here" in someone else's tree. I hope Nadella has jotted down a note to himself: Do not attempt to re-create Ballmer developers video. Unlike an outsider, Nadella knows precisely Microsoft's strengths and weaknesses, and has . (No, I haven't timed for how long, but but more that 5 minutes. So he admits it? 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. An original Xbox, 5 different Xbox 360's(red ring of death on two of them(! It would take, at this point a complete 360, but than again they've already done that twice. Much of the above is completely theoretical. I had one for grarage band, but I could not stand OSX. Im not going to pretend that I have enough insight or experience to tell Satya Nadella how to run Microsoft. and then, MS release a half baked piece of garbage that they called a smart phone. The economy remains fragile. Once, IBM was known for their computers, but then they changed focus from the individual to the corporation. That's now Nadellas problem to deal with. - Developments in Artificial Intelligence Nadella Satya can use developments in artificial intelligence to better predict consumer demand, cater to niche segments, and make better recommendation engines. Hi All 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. Time is Running Out, Motorola's handy Bluetooth device adds satellite messaging, Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives, Sony's new headphones adopt WH-1000XM5 technology at a great price, The perfectly pointless $197 gadget that some people will love. Why couldn't he have done that? Apple sells that many in 6 months, and Apple is #2. Balmer got it right when he wanted to populate users with inexpensive and fully usable handsets which bumped up the share to 4% world wide and around 15%in Europe only to be divested by Nadella. Speculation does not make sense, taking into account your erroneous articles concerning Microsoft mobile strategy. As a buyer of a Microsoft phone and a user of Win 10 on 4 systems I feel shat on by the company. Admitting apparently isn't keeping him from doing over and over again. Growing up as a young adult, all my home computer were Windows, 98- W10. Satya was just the guy that had to make the decision to pull the plug, but WP had been brain dead for a while already. Meanwhile WP8.1 never filled the promise of true intergration with Windows NT core so it never worked with Windows seemlessly and ironically less so than WP7 did while iPhone always had iTunes desktop for Mac & PC! MSFT seems to be telegraphing very clearly that they feel Windows will be dead in less than 10 years and they are moving the company in the direction to ensure survival in a post-Windows world. It's a follower and they don't want to admit itsad. The US market was at the mercy of the phone carriers so MS, under intelligent management, would have dropped the US and focussed on Europe. Can someone from WC actually get a quick interview with this CEO? - Project Management is too focused on internal delivery rather than considering all the interests of external stakeholders. So that re-affirms Microsoft is committed to their own platform first and foremost. I don't blame Nadella as much as I blame Ballmer. Microsoft was churning maybe 20 million actual users. We know now how that turns out. Any good "global survey experts" on this thread? I mean, he could have used the comment section/forums of Windows Central and got all the feedback he needed. Groove works good for the time beeing, but it will just last for this year. Its up to Nadella to ensure that the Surface project can finally be taken off financial life support and walk under its own steam. Yeah, short term the shareholders are making money, but long term I think this could be the beginning to the end for Microsoft. I dont think that anyone expects Microsoft to beat that number in the current quarter. IBM does it. Maybe this is a way to come back with a mobile device! I tell you. 7. 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 Moving forward, the 1520 simply needed a refresh and would have been quite a nice threesome with the 950 and 950xl. Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a growth mindset case Case But they didn't do that. 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. Strengths and Weaknesses are often restricted to company's internal - resources, skills and limitations. HoloLens? - Managing Regulations and Business Environment Nadella Satya operates in an environment where it faces numerous regulations and government diktats. The 920,1020 were some of the most talked about sp(smartphone) on themarket during that time. I'll probably end up getting it elsewhere from someone that will actually support it. 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 ). The WMR headsets i mean. iPhone, Mac, ipad, Apple music, iCloud Email, Pages, Keynote, numbers etc. Nadella IS committed to Windows Mobile - er - Windows ON mobile. MS will be next IBM and after short time success in B2B market, they will slowly be lost like IBM does. This is going to hurt Microsoft for the coming decades. Nadella is known for his leadership style, which emphasizes empathy, innovation, and a long-term focus. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. Recommendations to Nadella. 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. 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. 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. Nadella has said from the get go that Microsoft is committed to mobile. The successful organizations such as Nadella Satya are the one who able to predict market trends better than others, provide resources to develop products and services to leverage those trends, able to counter competitors threats, and meet customers expected value proposition. In the course of my day I shall speak to clients. 5. Win 10 pcs are nowhere near 1.5 billion, and never will be. I'm very happy with my iPhone. A fan and loyalist since the first Samsung Focus, I'm not sure what to think of any potential refresh. I agree with much of what you said.and then Befiores comment.he must never have gone into any of the phone storesbecause during MOST of windows phones life (regardless of iteration), you could almost never find them in the storesor they were relegated to the back tiny corner with next to no supportand most of the folks in the store would either tell you bad thing about the phone (not truly knowing the truth or having any experience or training in the phopne whatsoever), or push you to either android or iPhones. The influx of new customers has also led to evolution of consumer preferences and tastes. Some (Low) percentage would simply not work anyways, depending on how they were written. But those users and developers aren't going to just sit around. Just dropped us like a hot potato. Long time (I'm 46!) Maybe, but 'Enterprise' is ultimately collective of consumers. I don't know why they seem concerned about our comments in the Windows Phone Platform, but do nothing to fix what we share. FOLKS PERHAP WE WILL SEE MICROSOFT DEBUT AND SELL A MINI TABLET CELL PHONES HYBRID DEViCE. I'm done with this. But, they still had a base of faithful users that they have completely abandonded which was absolutly the worst thing they could've done. But until recently Surface and mobile were separate, meaning my statements about Surface would not apply to the 950 series. 96% of his compensation was performance-based, up from 71%. I honestly dont think there was anything MS could have done to get back in the game. Unfortunately, some folk didn't realize the piece actually addressed all of UWP, not just mobile, The man had more than two choices. What Microsoft's Satya Nadella thinks about work of the future May also look into jumping to the Apple ecosystem because it all just works together like the Microsoft one used to. WebOS was a great OS on very underpowered hardware. No doubt they are winding down Surface. The point is, Microsoft was WAY behind. They would have been the first to buy mixed reality devices and paid monthly for Xbox gold and Groove. While working full-time at Microsoft, Nadella also earned (1997) a masters degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. Does MS really think that Google and Apple are going to let it provide the cutting edge apps and services on their OS? The common denominator is management arrogance and death spiral sub-optimization. All to be left again, while they "retrench" themselves in another category. (He works in for Microsoft in Texas). Yeah, some of the analogies in these comments are beyond the pale. Then I hope Microsoft phone are on their feet again. They cancelled their entire European release and gave up. MS has basically managed Windows Phone in the same light. Enterprise? I understand why they pulled out. Facebook, Messenger, Line (in Taiwan, Japan), up coming iTunes, Netflix, Keeper, Instagram, TamperMonkey, Spotify, 8zip, etc. Amazon does it. The contract, which would supply the . Related stories. Bottom line, if you cannot win the war, change the rules of the game so you can define the battlefield yourself. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). What will this all mean to Continuum? So what if it lost money, it would sell like crazy and introduce another touch paradigm the one where we don't go full screen to full screen, where we have acutual WINDOWS we can snap and move. 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 don't know if I'm at all typical, but I was a loyal MS fan for years, and went to great effort to work within your ecosystem - phones, tablets, PC's. Well. They have money they can waste now. I look at this like eating at a restaurant that constantly gets your order wrong. I'm almost ready to throw in the towel on Windows Central. I'm a former java developer who has been swayed towards UWP and to "one software works on all devices" paradigm. No Windows/Microsoft mobiles means no OS that makes Microsoft Office relevant. Considering phones are what will power VR/AR, especially as they get more and more powerful, the desktop is not where mixed reality will reside in the long term, so Microsoft has set itself up for failure there as well. I think we will see the opposite now that mobile is king. Thats not to diminish the fact that Windows Phone itself needs all the developer attention it can muster.