But I get a feeling its history repeating itself all over again in the mobile space. I'm a former java developer who has been swayed towards UWP and to "one software works on all devices" paradigm. I agree with your comment, but here we both are in other ecosystems still reading W10 mobile news lol Hard habit to break. quote from 2 years ago: " If anything, one big mistake we made in our past was to think of the PC as the hub for everything for all time to come," Nadella I mean VR and AI COULD be incorporated into XBox and PC..but thats not where the market is going. It's very difficult to tell what is quote, secondary source, or your opinion in these articles. I'm not really a Satya apologist, but I dont blame him for what happened to Windows Phone. Enterprise is everything. The four key elements of SWOT analysis are - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats. Google has failed at various markets. Satya Nadella wakes at 7 am, three hours after Apple CEO Tim Cook. They did this with browsers in the early days of the consumer based internet. They could have moved the new Insider fork to just the X3 and kept a core group of loyalists happy while testbeding the tech. But what about the wobblier parts of Redmonds portfolio? Google can get into cloud services easily. The thing barely had any exclusive games other than the usual Halo,Forza, GOW etc and before you know if we are already on a generation refresh with the One X. People hanging about in a burning house while walls fell down around them and ash filled their lungs, smh. Google and Apple are committed and welcome talent. "I did not get why the world needed the third ecosystem in phones, unless we changed the rules." Everyone has at least two mobile devices - phone and tablet and mostly they don't run Microsoft OS. Groove works good for the time beeing, but it will just last for this year. Android and iOS are, right now! 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.". It's good for Android, iOS, and Windows! Even the camera on the Nokia 6 is really good, maybe a few issues in low light. In my opinion, cancelling phones was bad decision which will lead to the downfall of MS. It's far easier to hold on to customers than it is to acquire them. Something we can print from, and something that doesn't suffer from poor performance. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/there-are- Market is measured by money, not by people, otherwise India would be the most attractive market in the world, but it is not. Before slinging the "A" word around, try doing some research. 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. At one time, several years,ago, I read that Gartner or a large research firm "projected" that Windows Mobile would PASS Apple for #2 !!! Terrific job Satya Nadella !!! I have been a windows mobile / phone user for a many years. They need to fucus on that as well. Satya Narayana Nadella ( ting Telugu: , / ndl /; sinh ngy 19 thng 8 nm 1967) l mt gim c iu hnh kinh doanh ngi M gc n . 96% of his compensation was performance-based, up from 71%. @blue steel, If they had demonstrated that resolve, maybe developers would have been more willing to feed an emerging market of users. The common denominator is management arrogance and death spiral sub-optimization. Hell, I can buy this to my parents, because they do only common stuff on it Everyone was writing about the death of Windows Phone/Mobile, whilst fans were sticking up for it, and Microsoft simply ignored anything about it. 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. Windows Phones excellent 2013 was capped by a disappointing fourth quarter sales figure of Lumia Windows Phone handsets. W10/S/ARM will allcome up short becausethewhole damCORE idea depends on UWP to move forward. A mythical, moving target, Surface handheld device that hasn't seen the light of day yet after 4 or 5 years? I will use my X3 until it's dead. "I did not get why the world needed the third ecosystem in phones, unless we changed the rules." Nadella grew up in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and studied electrical engineering at Mangalore University (B.Sc., 1988). Outlook is now poor compared to previous iterations. Satya had every intention of killing this platform and every step he made ensured it's demise. Guess my next phone will be a Samsung device because it will be a cold day in hell when I buy an Apple device. Here in the UK, Aviva uses an app to do just that, so safer drivers have lower insurance premiums. Nadella is the worst CEO in the history of Microsoft, from a consumer point of view of course. When I read #HitRefresh it means kick the most loyal catagory of Windows Fans in the teeth in the mobile catagory. The promise of one core finally, seemless intergaion with a mobile experience that should have been prefferable on this platform for at least first party apps along with developer interest of intergrating the same code across multiple platforms. Consumers are NOT going to continue to buy from a company that consistently gives up and drops support. I agree, IBM now has declining revenue, because to the ordinary person, IBM has no relevance at all. They are better off waiting 10-15 years to appease the next generation of consumers and developers who have no history of being let down a dozen times. But he had passion and he truly seemed to care about Microsoft. What is Nadella going to do about this apparent lack of caring about consumers? He has steered the company away from a. But people are dropping their desktops, and why go for a Windows laptop when your mobile devices will play better with a different OS? Microsoft has been in the mobile market since the days of WINCE. Yes. If you get Stagelight, let me know ahead of time because I found a coupon code for all 3 platforms. OS run on devices and are device restrictive (can only run the os for which it was intended) devices cost money that includes royalties and use of the os (the things you agree to when OSes are first setup). Lastly sort out new tabs in edge so they open up to the users home page or and page of choice. Facebook, Messenger, Line (in Taiwan, Japan), up coming iTunes, Netflix, Keeper, Instagram, TamperMonkey, Spotify, 8zip, etc. 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. Obviously this has to be asked and displayed PROMINENTLY. the corporate policy has always been if we don't own the code we won't let you play on our devices. Europe is a 500 million people big market so I don't think that's a small market at all. Well by then Microsoft will either have a new mobile phone system ready or be irrelevant in the mobile business. All business end-users are consumers. It has experimented in various areas Leadership, Organizational culture. If you go back and look though, I was a HUGE MS/ Windows Mobile supporter. Window phone was dead 2 years ago when it wasn't making enough profit for too long. Worse-than-expected PC sales would also harm OEM revenues for Microsoft, both from consumers and enterprises. Then what? Except if you paid sometimes after accepting agrements, but if you did, please tell us what? It is Satya's defeatism and lack of vision and conviction that led to this. I switched because I needed too, not because I wanted too. 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. I was a young father of a little girl when I left and she's almost ready for kindergarten. Albeit without the use ahem salty language lol. It's all good in their bank account for now. "How long are you going to string your users along this time?" I still see people in the subway with their iPhone 4. It's a follower and they don't want to admit itsad. Very few. Again, this is one of the bestarticles I read from you. Windows 10 has the numbers and we see new good quality apps appearing in the store on a daily basis. Never again ! As far as MS is concerned, I use Windows and Office on a PC, just like I started out 20 years ago. Because you never understood Windows Phone, you jackass. Nadella was the worst thing that could have happened to Microsoft. 2023 ZDNET, A Red Ventures company. Since Satya became CEO, it has grown nine times to a valuation of $2.5 trillion, making Microsoft one of the world's two most valuable companies. The idea Microsoft may have folded now only to bring out something better in future has merit. Boy do I look like a fool now! It was dead evident. We can all appreciate that thirst for knowledge. That sh*t just doesn't add up. After all that there's a board shake up and we get Apotheker as head. Nadella is known for his leadership style, which emphasizes empathy, innovation, and a long-term focus. The MS supporters voiced this over and over and he failed to listen. He has more commitment, vision, drive, passion and focus than this assclown running microsoft. Microsoft was several years too late to having the Windows 10 Mobile platform even be ready to compete against iOS and Android. I was never unhappy with the OS as a whole and I still prefer it to Android. The market behaves opportunistic, if MS releases / creates an entire new device or form factor with a high "cool" usp, the market will behave opportunistic and shift back. What "unlock shareholder. It would take, at this point a complete 360, but than again they've already done that twice. Now, MS is no longer a inovative company. I was all in on Microsoft's services and hardware, by not providing me a mobile option they have lost me as a user. It isn't the guy digging for gold who gets rich, but rather the guy that sells the shovel. He has not changed his mind of that, just regretting that he did not pay closer attention to the phone base. - Changing Technology Landscape Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence boom is transforming the technology landscape that Nadella Satya operates in. Fans, users, developers and enterprise users think long term. Read Satya Nadella's letter to employees; . Bottom line, if you cannot win the war, change the rules of the game so you can define the battlefield yourself. In addition, HP footed the bill and GOT the HP Elite x3 "modified and certified" TO RUN ON VERIZON for a fall release!!! They also support many microsoft softwares on the Android and IOS. 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. Enough People would buy them for Microsoft take the time to make amd market them. This time, it promises, will be different. Please forget about Win32 antiques. Tried like hell to get SO Many people to jump on this bandwagon and ride it. No idea. 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. I know there were major issues, but these little things improve daily life of the end user And that's what matters. last updated August 12, 2020. Some people say Windows Mobile / Phone was murdered, and my thought is that it wasn't, there were projects like Astoria and iOS Bridge which didn't had enough resources and marketing and didn't got attention in the Microsoft company as top priorities. We dared buying your phones! Just once. 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. Going . You can create the greatest OS known to man, but without apps the platform will be DOA. I think any decision he made was going to cost Microsoft something. But I do think it would help for microsoft to look broadly at the extensive feedback, and get the back log of insider feedback going. But I've seen it time and time again in previous articles. To get developers, they would have needed 25% or more at least, and users that spend money in the app store. It is all masterful sleight of hand to distract attention away from weakness in enterprise spending, the genesis of Microsoft's core business. Which is what it looked like they were doing and what HP was doing. Regards It's about new management practices and . With MSFT once spearheading this path it has let many of us to a cul-de-sac. What is he planning to do to correct this? Windows Phone just worked, but with each release they took away more and more features and broke other ones. They had huge volume of insiders giving them feedback for free. I was idealist I told myself I'd add my two bits to this grand idea against the odds because I believed in it. When they do have good ideas they are late to the market and other companies beat them to the punch. Satya was most culpable of undercutting those within Microsoft trying to keep it alive, as he would say negative things about the platform and then drag his feet in clarifying. They will swap to Apple as the trend is there. Of course most people don't know about or use W10 M so they will not be feeling as I do. I was MS biggest cheer leader. The thing that frustrates me the most about this is how the company was so secretive about its vision for Windows on phones; or lack thereof. 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. Get an AMERICAN back in the job and DEPORT Satya. Instead of capitalizing on that, he stopped making Windows Phones at all. Windowsphone never delivered Microsoft Pay but Google and Apple did deliver mobile payments and are exploiting a technology Microsoft have missed. The elder Nadella announced the news of his son's . Groove was shut down (and even though they say they'll refund you 120% of outstanding value they're refusing to honor this with me as I have unused codes that have apparently "expired"- codes are valid though and the T&C's mention nothing about an export date). Engage with consumer spaces that they have not traditionally engaged in so secure infotainment systems, this will allow to fine tune 5g tech and leverage azure with Cortana analytics. So, give them something they are familiar with but with a settingoption where they could useeither Live Tiles or Icons. I have been a Microsoft fan from the beginning and have enjoyed their products and I am a HUGE WINDOWSPHONE FAN but I am DONE! I must confess that we use only Android and iOS phones in our household. Growing up as a young adult, all my home computer were Windows, 98- W10. The iphone X's facial ID has nothing to do with 950's retina scan, they have two different techs, and it's large screen was not copied from a Lumia 950XL or any lumia :)) how pathetic can you be?? It's frustrating to see for a company I was quite overzealous about at a time. The really really sad thing is that for a while ago, I was still defending for W10M and truly believed that MS had something cool they are working on. Sure, the US wasn't one of those but who cares, parts of the EU were huge, Brazil also if I recall correctly and a few other places. Spotyfi does not work at all on my Lumia 950 XL When starting, 5 dots passes over the screen for several minutes. Bing is much more than just a website - it's the search infrastructure and tech at the heart of MS Cloud computing. Maybe they didn't want anymore after that. 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). I wish this information had been available a couple of weeks ago. if a peice of hardware does not sell well a Microsoft ceo can stop production & sales of that hardware. As Windows XP ages, it holds off future PC purchases and makes companies that use it less secure. MS still dominates most aspects of computer infrastructure and Android/iOS isn't replacing that anytime soon. And who know's if and when a Chrome o/s will suddenly pring up, hey? You have any data to show any meaningful increase in sales? The most distructive piece of their abandoning product lines is the internal piece. 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? I'm not bitter or angry - that takes too much energy - just a little heartbroken because I have to give up something I love. Lets see what happens. Moving forward, the 1520 simply needed a refresh and would have been quite a nice threesome with the 950 and 950xl. Go. The Microsoft CEO ranks at No. As an OS company, I don't understand how MS seems to have failed to grasp is that "consumer" = "enterprise." Now, we're having to move on. Satya Nadella said reading a diary entry from his mom reminded him what leadership is really about. 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." . This is going to cost Microsoft very dearly, and I don't think they will ever recover from this. I had faith in this guy initially but now he doesn't seem like he's the kind of guy who should be leading a multi-billion dollar company. At EMBA PRO This so reminds me of when I had my Palm Pre. When MS released Windows 8 (desktop) and WP 8. Go now Natella.. During the recent interview with business podcast Marketplace's Corner Office, Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17 now available with 13th Gen Intel CPUs and NVIDIA RTX 40-Series graphics, Resident Evil 4 remake preview: Darker and sleeker but still beautifully cheesy, Bing Chat can now switch between tones at the switch of a toggle, Monster Hunter: Rise and 19 other games headed to NVIDIA GeForce NOW in March. My #1 'Forever Dividend' Stock [sponsor] Ballmer did, but of course short term profits is what share holders think about. 18 Other Top Book Recommends From Satya Nadella. The fact that Google did and Microsoft didn't is, well, rather sad in my view. The overlap between product lines in Microsoft is substantial. No such action has been taken so I call BS on MS. I'm making this comment on downloaded bing from the play store on my old Samsung Galaxy Mega. That issue has to be reconciled. That's now Nadellas problem to deal with. A heck of a way to treat your customers. At this rate, it's going to be cloud only as the consumer market dries up to nothing. Look inside most of our elementary schools. Nokias hardware division drags on Microsofts margins and net income. Don't need them. The carriers - at least in America - never supported the OS as they did Apple or Samsung after 7.0 failed to fly. The few million people who owned windows phones I guarantee were Microsoft's biggest fans. Microsoft will be extremely vulnerable without a mobile presence. Any "survey experts" to SEND A STRONG MESSAGE to Satya Nadella - I will sign and,can get dozens of others just by myself. It was over when Google gave Android away for free and Microsoft kept charging for Windows Mobile. When he took the helm in 2014, he noted a critical company weakness: Microsoft didn't know how to social. Satya Nadella, chief executive officer said in . I tell you. Love their outlook, and onenote but changes needed. The Surface Phone has been promised for YEARS! MS has screwed every single fan over and didn't even try lube. Why did they move to Windows 10 mobile, when they knew the Windows 10 OS was not good to go? Ive done most of the leg work already on what impact Nokia could have on Microsofts earnings, and it looked slight. Integrate the Nokia division without bloodshed. But why not as long as Microsoft keep raking in the $$$. I can honestly say, I would go back to my windows phone in a heartbeat if it had the same apps and a future. ". In his own words, he needed to change the rules of the game. The entire current management team and board need to be shot. Now, No ******* thing. But they seem to be blind or plain stupid OK, so he admitted it. The problem I see is multi-faceted and not just about, "You have no phones for consumers." It wouldn't be that hard for a company with massive cash reseeves to get, what, 150 to 200 top apps and games. It's not that Nadella lacks an ego, and the robust financial results his company has racked up give him undeniable bragging rights. For example, more will start use google docs and storage (due to integration with phone etc.) I dont think that anyone expects Microsoft to beat that number in the current quarter. Thats not to diminish the fact that Windows Phone itself needs all the developer attention it can muster. 10 years? Market share just did not justify the expenditure for developers. Managers' fears about idle workers are creating what Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella calls "productivity paranoia," with undesirable resultslike spying on employees. 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. I have not commented on an article here in such a long time! 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 . Nadella will have to welcome droves of people into a culture that he will be only freshly in charge of. 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. Microsoft should build its own variant of Android in same way Amazon did with Fire OS. Running a server in Windows Azure is already effectively Windows Server by subscription. With the way they treated windows mobile and developers, it is going to be a real problem when (or if) they actually release this "andromeda" thing. - Inventory Management Based on the details provided in the Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study, we can conclude that Nadella Satya is not efficiently managing the inventory and cash cycle. Google doesit. 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 . The easiest one they could start one with is a surface mini with LTE connectivity and telephone because that will enable them to segway into ultra mobile devices with telephony abilities. I will never trust Microsoft again in the mobile area. That is why world share reached 4%. Because we all perceive and parse thoughts and feelings differently (cognitive processes and any forms of bias). 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. Anyway, Jason, I enjoy your articles, quixotic as they are at times :). History does repeat itself, and in the corporate world it is usually because of poor management and lack of vision. But if they were smart they would not brand it Microsoft or Windows. 4 on the overall list with a yearly compensation of $84,308,755. Google assitant works pretty flawlessly responding to "OK google", unlike the inconsistentcy of "hey cortana" on my Idol. You want him to do all that while writing a book??? Given all of this, it will basically be seen by the public as Yet AnotherWindows Phone. It's that re-affirmed bias that drives most developers to target the platform with a larger base group. Nadella is synonymous with the cloud for a reason. The contract, which would supply the . 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.
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