I don't mean this to sound hyperbole, but I'm beginning to think in 10 years or so, MS will be IBM. They cancel products and services without thinking twice and assuming that consumers just have money to throw around to buy new products and services Nadella Satya can use strengths to create niche positioning in the market, can strive to reduce & remove weaknesses so that it can better compete with competitors, look out to leverage opportunities provided by industry structure, regulations and other development in external environment, and finally make provisions and develop strategies to mitigate threats that can undermine the business model of Nadella Satya. 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. So if an Apple/Google competitor offers a competitive product then I will give it a good look, if not my first right of refusal. Yes it was a collosal failure to abandon those loyal to the platform. That sh*t just doesn't add up. Here's a bulletin for Satya NadellaYou have to have a range of products and services for your customers if you expect to keep them. Both Google and Apple have AR that people can use right now in their pockets! MS was not in the position to deliver half-baked stuff at that time. That's ok though. Nah he is just paving the way of killing "the shiny new thing" in a few months to a year, again citing no developer interest. That works out to 35M discounted (to free) phones. HP must have been working with BIG HP ENTERPRISE customers and BIG HP partners and could have "really bridged the gap"!!! Strengths are the Nadella Satya capabilities and resources that it can leverage to build a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. You don't even have to say "hey Cortana", so, there's that. Nadella has said from the get go that Microsoft is committed to mobile. The Surface Phone has been promised for YEARS! Removing such items from the list of devices, that can be the vehicle for the future developments, will hurt the overall reception to anything MS is attempting to achieve. It doesn't matter which is the best (it never has, e.g. Nadella is synonymous with the cloud for a reason. When you fail to tell the truth to your employees the organization begins to corrode from the inside. It's good for Android, iOS, and Windows! However my contract expires in the next few months so I shall just keep my options open and see what happens. AR is already a fail: look what they did with HoloLens, it's 2 yars now. LOL, the only thing worth copying from a Lumia was the camera technology. But that does not make him good on the PC or a smartphone or understand anything about the consumer. MS was king because the dominated the desktop - all applications had to be written for it to exist. I no longer consider myself a "Everything Microsoft" purchaser. VHS v Betamax, MP3 v losless audio, Beats Headphones v any named audio house) just which is the most popular. Youi cannot preach "Windows Everywhere" and "Eco System" without looking at the profitibility of the combined effort. If Microsoft had put the entire $7B they spent on Nokia towards additional phone subsidies, lets say they could have made what was normally a $200 phone a free phone. I think this is one of the best options MS has if it wants to come back in the mobile space. If theysee Google and Apple apps/hardware/software everywhere, people are not going to buy Microsoft. I don't really have any other smartphone experience to compare it to, but I do know how a phone looks is part of what catches my eye and I have, to this day, have not seen one phone that is as eye-catching as Window Phone's transparent tiles and what you can do with them to create an awesome home screen. Microsoft is no longer the giant it used to be, and apparently is digging its own grave. Not because of the content and information but mainly because its just sad. It is so hard to watch Microsoft go down this path, the only redemption for this fanbase is a hero product in spring, I used to hold my breath for that stuff, not any more. In my opinion, cancelling phones was bad decision which will lead to the downfall of MS. Satya is just like this but on steroids. It doesn't have to compete against companies that make a lot of gadgets. Percentages do not tell you the whole story. Too late. I lost "faith" in Microsoft when they killed the Band. The only apparent certainty at this point is that Nadella cares ONLY about Microsoft's cloud services, and Andriod & iOS apps. 8 years? 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. There is was one path forward as I see it. Please used all the technology you bought from Nokia.. The lack of apps does not bother me because those same free apps are the feeding tubes for identity theft and loss of privacy to data mining. Bing is much more than just a website - it's the search infrastructure and tech at the heart of MS Cloud computing. A fine figure, but one that only points to a third of a billion dollars or so in revenue. "Well-being is one of the most important pieces of productivity management 2. According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston , Nadella Satya needs fundamental changes to business model rather than cosmetic changes. He's a first grade FOOL. My, how time flies. What "unlock shareholder. And theres progress in the cloud as well. The article and lots of the comment said WP fail because lack of dev/app, people must realize W10 also use the same dam UWP. hits the nail on the head. Maybe, but 'Enterprise' is ultimately collective of consumers. , we specialize at analyzing & providing comprehensive, corporate SWOT
MS just doesn't get internationalisation, or user needs outside of the US tech bubble. March 2, 2022, 9:52 AM PST. WC was giving this guy credit for a lot of Ballmers work! Most mobile phone carriers are bundling ever more minutes and texts in plans because people have moved to data. Microsoft must rethink its business looking for a leadership with strength in marketing to achieve strategic agreements that allow the company to recover its level of competition. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Moving forward, the 1520 simply needed a refresh and would have been quite a nice threesome with the 950 and 950xl. Zain Nadella, 26, was born with cerebral palsy. It's with a growth mindset, Nadella has changed the image of Microsoft to being super cool again. "Leaders think their . When I was entrenched in the ecosystem, my phone and my pc worked so well together. Thats not to diminish the fact that Windows Phone itself needs all the developer attention it can muster. Early last year, the ValueAct Capital hedge fund took a $2 billion stake in Microsoft and began agitating for change. Satya Narayana Nadella (Telugu: , / n d l /; born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-American business executive. Their exclusivity killed windows phone. I will watch and see! 1. He was lured away from Sun in 1992 to join Microsoft, where he initially worked on the development of Windows NT, a landmark operating system that was aimed primarily at business users. 96% of his compensation was performance-based, up from 71%. 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. If the PC market sees continued weakness akin to what happened in 2013, PC unit volume could decline until key partner OEMs bow out. This puts Nadella in the helm partway through two key and coinciding changes to the company. Nadella should admit he made a mistake and walk back the decision to sacrifice not only Windows Phone, but all the folks who love it. I started with Windows CE 1.0 and went through all of the different iterations of mobile software that Microsoft shipped. Please don't waste my time anymore with these kind of articles. Believe me when I tell you that windows phone had always been a beta test. In Europe Nokia was doing much better than in the US. Pretty logic to me. So the Windows 8.x we have for mobile today is likely the Windows 8.x for mobile we are going to have for some time. Nadella grew up in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and studied electrical engineering at Mangalore University (B.Sc., 1988). Nadella's job is to make Microsoft as profitable as possible, and I'm sure that he was under pressure from shareholders to cut the dead weight.
At least they have Azure MS waited way too long to get serious about the mobile platform. FOLKS PERHAP WE WILL SEE MICROSOFT DEBUT AND SELL A MINI TABLET CELL PHONES HYBRID DEViCE. Satya Nadella is an Indian-American business executive who is best known for being the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft.Before becoming CEO, he served as the executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group of Microsoft.Satya has been the recipient of honors like the Financial Times' "Person of the Year", Fortune magazine's "Businessperson of the Year", and CNBC . They think they cannot lose the enterprise space, but IBM thought that about OS/2. 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. Until then we can enjoy the many new Universal apps on our superior Lumia 950 (XL) phones. You may want to try. It's still a devkit not used but anybody relevant. I will say I diddefend the guy from time to time but now, after buying into the hardware and software game from Microsoft and then finding out later, they scrap it anyways. All he did was avoid answers, while offering some nebulous comments that left loyal customers baffled. 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. - Project Management is too focused on internal delivery rather than considering all the interests of external stakeholders. Windroid [andromeda OS for consumers]. Unreal. Microsoft would have never appointed a tunnel vision IT person Stay as the President. So their sole purpose was to select the highest priority ones and focus development on that. The company has focused its efforts in the future of the cloud and 3D business based on other platforms like android and iOS, leaving behind its own platform and what is trending in today business. But, when you are a legacy icon, everyone wants to rip down your statue. And how's that Groove subscription doing? Microsoft also sellsOffice 365 to businesses large and small, governments, and educational customers. Everyone was writing about the death of Windows Phone/Mobile, whilst fans were sticking up for it, and Microsoft simply ignored anything about it. So here's my planI'm going to get Panos to build the best goddam phone he can, and I'm going to make sure we upgrade it every year. Nokia, when whole, was not a particularly profitable company. So, you know, keep the Surface division growing at triple digit percentages for the next few years. In 1988, Satya completed his bachelor's degree at Manipal Institute in electronic engineering. In fact, I would say Nadella and the Board are collectively insane. 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. Me, I love live tiles. But what really happened? A $299 Surface with 64GB, keyboard included, could do the job IMHO. When my 950 dies or I'm clearly missing out on the coolest phone features, I'll move over to Google and say goodbye toone OneDrive etc. Enter Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Walk back the decision while you still can. basically anyone on Windows was using MS services, so transfer to new product which would not be compatible with old system would be easy for them. He oversees Microsoft's computer software and hardware products, including Windows, Xbox, Surface, Office 365, and Bing. Why did they move to Windows 10 mobile, when they knew the Windows 10 OS was not good to go? You're sad now but believe me, once you move to a stable and stress free phone you'll be happy. 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. Sorry to tell him, to late. They have opened the door and made it easy for the competitors. While Mr Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, was declared the "Person of the Year" by the Financial Times, Mr Pichai was named the CEO of Alphabet, the principal company which owns Google, of which Mr. Give me a call when you hit 51% anywhere consumer market based. no not old desktops. Microsoft was churning maybe 20 million actual users. I bought this phone a year ago brand new believing in Microsoft's promise on making those phones if no one else would and that they would invest in the universal app system. PayPal left, Mobile pay lef, weChat left, myfitnesspal left and spottify is on maintenance mode. Having a mobile device would have kept them in the game. The more I see his management style the more I realize that he has no idea what he's doing in terms of long term goals. People used to say that about the original Xbox, but then MS went out and paid for great games. 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.". Instead of capitalizing on that, he stopped making Windows Phones at all. At least I have noticed this and I was researching and then found out like Media agenciesgetpaid for biased news. Very true. Frankly, he does not understand the "Consumer Space" AT ALL (at least now he admits it.) Satya Nadella will never read WC thread but, a "global survey of PO'd users" might get picked up by the Press? It's just business. Maybe we need Bill Gates to lead microsoft again..I hate CEOs that try to show profit by downsizing rather than truly growng the business. Feel free to connect with us if you need business research. noun Microsoft is still pulling its re-org together at the same time it is changing its business model. Satya Nadella is the CEO of Microsoft, one of the world's largest and most influential technology companies. That said, I believe MSFT has been incredibly disingenuous and downright cavalier with people's emotions in how they have played this saga but then given the numbers of Windows 10 subscribers out there, I guess they brought that into their calculations. You know the one you bought so you could integrate your TV and have something way better than the Wii. Weaknesses come from lack or absence of five key resources & capabilities - activities & processes, past experiences and successes, physical resources such as land, building, human resources, and financial resources . Putting the best features of Windows on other eco systems isn't magically going to bring people over to MS. No idea. Amid the rise of work-from-home culture post-Covid-19 lockdowns, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that bosses are scared that their employees slack off while working from home. lol. A low cost, touch device, similar to the Surface. 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. There is a lot of progress in innovation on many levels, but there is a huge lack of following through in the fot and finish. This is sucky. No one mentions this and I feel it was detrimental to Microsoft going forward in Mobile, because in the U.S., Verizon is the biggest carrier. Once, IBM was known for their computers, but then they changed focus from the individual to the corporation. no. If you are not making a mobile device then you are not creating the ecosystem for your services. Hopefully, MS will abandon mobile and consumers completely instead of promising falsehoods and wasting the hard earned cash of consumers! Felt completely abandoned. Also I hope it is clear that MS has moved on from Mobile focus they now want to catch up with the supposedly next big thing. Nokias hardware division drags on Microsofts margins and net income. Now i rather have Phil spencer or Panos at head of Microsoft, people that stand behind their products and fans, consumers. I am going with Nokia 8 next year. The single OS may be from different ecosystems, like Apple of MS but other than that all devices would communicate, access data, and integrate relativly seamlessly. Growing up as a young adult, all my home computer were Windows, 98- W10. "The future of work is not just about technology and tools," he said. In addition, Windows on the consumer side needs to aggressively address the pricing issue. Europe has 750 000 000 people, that's a bigger market than US. I've recently been on Android and had to go through the growing pains of my mom switching to iOS. As much as he had to pull the plug on Balmer's bad decisions. It is also clear that WinPhone/WinMob was a cluster-f from the day iOS was launched and WinMob 6.5 was terrible by comparison. :))) Are you smoking something? So is leaving some software out from,10 like gestures beta lol. MS still dominates most aspects of computer infrastructure and Android/iOS isn't replacing that anytime soon. It limits the ability of the firm to build a sustainable competitive advantage. This approach can lead to poor public relation and customer backlash. hprbl/ Disney's DMA contract already wasn't renewed. Tried like hell to get SO Many people to jump on this bandwagon and ride it. Maybe this is a way to come back with a mobile device! To be plain, Nadellas new role is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, jobs in technology. Satya is writing his own book - Hit Refresh. And lastly taking simple things like a weekly calenders view or linked in boxes away in 8.1 and waitingb11 and 12 months to give them back is not acceptable either.