I am one of those MS loyalists who believed all the hype (now looking like BS) about Windows utility and productivity across all platforms. Well, I started getting angry with Mr. Softy when they screwed over we Surface RT owners. Who's going to buy a mixed reality headset? Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Brazil, France, Canada, UK, India, and Thailand were the countries where more than 40% of their respective populations were using Windows phones. I'm getting off track), updated features. being a Windows Mobile user since the days of the PocketPC, WM4 WM5.3, WP7, etc etc.. etc.. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. - Increasing Standardization Nadella Satya can leverage this trend to reduce the number of offerings in the market and focus the marketing efforts on only the most successful products. 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. abandon consumer market is a bad choose Heres a thought, why not sell Windowsphone to HDM or whoever bought Nokia. 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! Never the less it's not to late, Microsoft has to formally announce on a massive stage, their mea culpa for abandoning consumers and how they will work to repair all the bridges they burnt. Windowsphone was not about phone. As is, whatever they do, they will do without OEM support at first, which could be tricky. And completely abandoning the consumer market, going for business only. Facebook, Messenger, Line (in Taiwan, Japan), up coming iTunes, Netflix, Keeper, Instagram, TamperMonkey, Spotify, 8zip, etc. Even the camera on the Nokia 6 is really good, maybe a few issues in low light. Nadella had to get that message or they will relegated to be the next IBM as others have said. 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. Now change the proud tradition, established by your founder Bill. Ok, Jason. Both Google and Apple have AR that people can use right now in their pockets! Nadella rose steadily through the ranks of Microsoft management. I am not going to handicap my android experience by using a gimped cortana and bing this go around. Anyway, Jason, I enjoy your articles, quixotic as they are at times :). 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. But he had passion and he truly seemed to care about Microsoft. I understand why they pulled out. So far, Microsoft has shown good momentum, but Nadella could find himself with a substitute product that cant generate as much cash as its predecessor. Anyone who seriously thought that Microsofts board was going to choose an outsider who was willing to blow up Microsofts core businesses was, um,qualified to runfor Mayor of Toronto. Microsoft was among the first companies to exceed a $1 trillion valuation when it hit that milestone in April 2019. On 16th June 2021, Nadella has been further appointed as the Executive Chairman of Microsoft, succeeding John W. Thompson. Microsoft WILL not gain from making their Windows 10 for desktops free as they need that business right now. 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. According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston , Nadella Satya needs fundamental changes to business model rather than cosmetic changes. I was all in on Microsoft's services and hardware, by not providing me a mobile option they have lost me as a user. But there are no wow factor you put into the phone.. In the course of my day I shall speak to clients. I'm on the Insiders program. Zero trust in that company anymore, zero. Bing is much more than just a website - it's the search infrastructure and tech at the heart of MS Cloud computing. 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. If the current Windows users can use their MS stuff on either mobile platforms, they will be ok. I'm a full-time user of OneNote, One Drive, and Outlook. I will never trust Microsoft again in the mobile area. Will Microsoft abandon this thing in a year or two like he did with phones?". My phone and PC no longer communicate the way they used to. I haven't seen any apologists here today. The MS supporters voiced this over and over and he failed to listen. An original Xbox, 5 different Xbox 360's(red ring of death on two of them(! Its shortsighted. The excitement, expectation, thrill, is just not the same).. By sticking with the current project he not only earns respect from consumers, he also makes his loyalty a rallying and starting point for everyone. When I had that thought I realised just how annoyed I am with Microsoft. Like DT is running MS. All they need is a small but powerful tablet in the size of a phone with cellular but do not market it as a phone. It's good for Android, iOS, and Windows! And so it needs to have an OS that functions in the "consumer" space. Thank you for speaking the truth about Ballmer & Satya pushing things Ballmer already implemented or on his product roadmap. I really don't want toeven though having imessage and facetime on my computer would be awesome, but I cannot stand the sewage that is MacOS. WP7 was a mediocre crap, lacking copy/paste, BT file transfers, no file manager, mediocre email experience, PC sync was a mess especially for exchange stuff. 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. In hindsight, I'm convinced it was doomed from the beginning. Youi cannot preach "Windows Everywhere" and "Eco System" without looking at the profitibility of the combined effort. I noticed MS focused more and more on this third segment. I already sell my HP elite x3, but I still using windows phone 10 with my ex Lumia 930. If you feel that you've constantly let consumers down (which actually you have) then do something to bridge that gap. Why does Microsoft need to be in the phone/mobile OS market? allow MEMU on windows mobile in the storeAll will be fine then! WC was giving this guy credit for a lot of Ballmers work! and then, MS release a half baked piece of garbage that they called a smart phone. Unfortunately Microsoft's lack of focus and inability to market thier own product made this deal seem like a precieved desparate move instead of taking full adavntage of this opprtunity. He laid out his vision for . Nadella is the worst CEO in the history of Microsoft, from a consumer point of view of course. Satya is a regular Sherlock. Nokia, when whole, was not a particularly profitable company. Learn from mistakes and grow with concepts not with words.First and most important, build products/services for each and every person. "I did not get why the world needed the third ecosystem in phones, unless we changed the rules." yeah and at one point Windows Mobile 6.5 had something like 20% marketshare in USA, and over 60% in EU. 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. Genius! Here are some of Satya Nadella's recommended books from the past that are also worth reading. You don't even have to say "hey Cortana", so, there's that. 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. The economy remains fragile. Instead of that they rushed W10 mobile out of door without propper testing and made the whole world to laugh at them To hell with MS. Good luck being with being purely an enterprise OS and an office supplier. Instead they tried the other way around and failed. You may want to try. Despite more than doubling its revenue in the period, Surface lost tens of million of dollars in the past quarter. Finally, he admitted that he made a FUBAR! The elder Nadella announced the news of his son's . It's now over, and they will suffer the market consequences for many years to come. I was going to buy a new Surface Laptop. Apple has HomeKit, Google something similar, Alexa also interfaces with a host of other services. Define the line between business and consumer. I definitely did not replace my MS software with Google. - Increase in Consumer Disposable Income Nadella Satya can use the increasing disposable income to build a new business model where customers start paying progressively for using its products. Do they have a big market share? I feel like they believe they're the trend setters of the industry and everybody will just follow them. And you know what two years back they seemed to really start to look cool. Look at how both the Surface Book and the Surface Studio took the vast majority of sources by surprise and the Surface Laptop only leak the day or two before announcement. We're going to move to Android and IOS, and anything MS announces "in the future" won't matter to those who have moved on. I'm totally agree.. OEM's wisely took the choice of the free OS over a paid one. 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. I don't see AR/VR/MR/whateverR becoming much of a universal platform. 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 global executive survey done by Harvard Business Review & Brightline Initiative Only 20% of the strategic targets set by organizations are realized. Consumers and business want a third choice or at the very least they want to be able to decide. Nadella should really just spare us all the yap.. Don't mean nothing if you are not backing it up. MShave been announcing 1 unified OS (now called OneCore) scalable since many years now. Even though I left WM almost 2 years ago, I was still using windows 10 as my daily drivers on my laptops/desktops. That's now Nadellas problem to deal with. - Lack of Work force diversity I believe that Nadella Satya is not diverse enough given that most of its growth so far is in its domestic market. Give me a call when you hit 51% anywhere consumer market based. no not old desktops. 2023 ZDNET, A Red Ventures company. Wiith The HP Elite x3 smart phone going to be discontinued and the Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950xl gone what does Microsoft have nothing something is better than nothing. They aren't the only ones. I no longer consider myself a "Everything Microsoft" purchaser. The market research . They aren't accountable for their mistakes or give clear messages as to which direction they are going in. I was convinced that they will push mobile and UWP until it succeed and it would. Analysis of Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study. Inspirational Motivation. It is actually fairly small, though still offers chances to earn few billions for the operating system company, so it is not something that should be ignored by a big company, just if you ask whether it is normal that other things were priority, yes it is. 8. The work that goes into Windows and Office ends up in both the enterprise and consumer/soho versions of those two products. I have been Microsoft everything since the DOS days, not anymore. Almost all Developers cater to consumers because that is the largest growth market for trends and 15-minute fame apps. I think they could have basically said, "look the X3 will not get win32 support but it will get as much else of Andromeda that the hardware can handle (essentially becoming W10S) so we can build the core experience on it during insider preview" that would have let HP market an X3 version 2 for the legacy win32 support and given Microsoft the loyal user base that would give them feedback on the development. And one last thing focusing on one comment I made. Guess which is going to win mindshare and therefore developer attention? Nearly 30 percent, to be precise. So market share never took off - regardless of the fact that the UI and overall experience was (and remains) far superior to the hunt-peck-oogle idiom of iPhone (which is like a nursery school toy) and Android (which sucks electrons faster than a Tesla at full speed). 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. The only thing he could have done at that point was to discount hardware, but after the billion dollar Surface RT write-off he would have been crucified if Microsoft had to undertake what basically would have been another write off to discount hardware (i.e. Without a mobile platform of their own their future is limited if not over. I just ordered a Pixel 2, created a Google account and will begin to transition over time from Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive & Cortana to all the other Google apps and programs too. As a company standpoinnt he did the right thing. The global PC market is expected to contract a few points this year, and then bottom out in 2015. I will NEVER buy MS hardware again! But those users and developers aren't going to just sit around. Although Microsoft have no obligation to me, their practices over Phone and Groove have me very cautious. It is simple and easy to interact with but Apple as whole interacts with very few things outside its own verse. I mean, he could have used the comment section/forums of Windows Central and got all the feedback he needed. Europe has 750 000 000 people, that's a bigger market than US. The 920,1020 were some of the most talked about sp(smartphone) on themarket during that time. Just give people the option. Perhaps even that one will go universal app as many others . It wasn't making headway. Please. There are many companies in the world that sell software for more than 20 billion dollars (including Microsoft). Satya Narayana Nadella became Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2014. Emails? 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. Based on details provided in the Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study Nadella Satya can easily grow in its domestic market without much innovation but will require further investment into research and development to enter international market. Using Nadella Satya strengths to consolidate and expand the market position. I have a simple straight question for Jason Ward in order to better understand and "position" his analysis and Warditorials. last updated August 12, 2020. Yet they keep making the same mistakes, over and over and over. Too late. Plus, Win32 apps are running in emulation. 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. The idea of AI, Mixed Reality, cloud computing, bodes very well for the companies who have mobile, pocket sized devices to leverage. Atleast MS will not have to worry about the app gap and the OS can be customized as per MS specific needs. They will never have any loyalty (or even knowledge of) to Microsoft going into the future. But it should lead the way for its products and services, and Windows Phone is the platform to do just that. According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston , this can reduce the potential of success of Nadella Satya in the international market. For example, it was corporate spend that kept Microsofts OEM revenues from falling heavily in its most recent quarter. Windows and MD is in serious trouble because he left the only market that matters. "People often ask how it's going," said Nadella. You probably have no chance to become Microsoft's CEO. Nadella Satya should just get out of these business areas and focus on strength and threats box , or on weakness and opportunities box. I honestly dont think there was anything MS could have done to get back in the game. I thought Game Of Thrones for all its fiction should have taught the lesson better.. For years, he's never given a straight answer to anything, especially Win phones. Let's look at the last 5-7 years. I truly love technology and I keep up with the news here because I like it so much. I cannot come to purchase another mac. The Surface division had a rocky start but seems to have recovered after those initial stumbles. He has spent the majority of his career working on enterprise software and was only recently appointed to lead Microsoft's consumer businesses. 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. Microsoft was several years too late to having the Windows 10 Mobile platform even be ready to compete against iOS and Android. Nuttela's Puffer-in-Chief LOL. I had a chance to speak with developers on many occasions to urge them to do the relatively little work it required to create a Windows compatible app. I buy more books than I can finish. We know now how that turns out. Started with an HTC Surround Windows 7 Phone back in 2011, kept that for a few years, then upgraded to Nokia Lumia 920 Windows 8 Phone, Things I liked about Windows 7 and 8 Phones, no worries on viruses or malware, the smooth intergreation with my Desktop, Sadly had to switch to Android in December 2015 as got tired of not having apps that I needed. Clearly said in one of the articles Mixed Reality or AI makes no sense without mobile device. 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. It's tough to grow anything without seeds. That may not be the case. EXCELLENT POINT, I completely agree!!! If not to zero, then at least to a level where the price differential from devices that run Android/Chrome or other almost-free operating systems is clearly warranted by a solid value proposition. the penny drops at MS? But "enterprises" are made up of employees who are also "consumers." The day my Windows 10 phone stops working I will switch both my phone and laptop to Apple with no looking back. Lets take a moment instead to focus on what could go wrong for the new CEO. Professionally I have already been seeing a shift away from business even requesting MS products just for that reason and less interest in MS products when I propose them to clients. By completely ceding this space, Microsoft is in effect abandoning personal computing. Satya Nadella i Competing in the Age of AI Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World Marco Iansiti Source: "An important book that explains what's required to rethink the firm and become an AI-first company." - Satya Nadella View on Amazon 2 recommenders Mark Cuban Satya Nadella i No Rules Rules It is not going to matter what they come up with in the future. It helps to feel less foolish and disrespected by MS for their actions towards consumers. Calm down the "unlock shareholder value" crowd. Mobile is not the biggest software market in the world. In 2007 he was elevated to senior vice president of research and development for the companys online services division, and he later served (201113) as president of Microsofts server and tools business, which annually generated some $19 billion in revenue. HOWEVER, If the shift towards business grows and windows turns into a business only OS, with lack of cool features for producing, photos, videos etc, I am going to have to go to apple. Not all at once but steadily. I think you only make money if you are number 1 so hence the Spotify alliance.

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