Green mushroom for you windows mobile fanatic. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and . Corrections? Right now the average Joe might see AI as Siri, Google now, and Alexa. They have burned too many bridges and lost too much trust. Microsoft's Satya Nadella speaks out on employee well-being as workdays Although Microsoft have no obligation to me, their practices over Phone and Groove have me very cautious. Once we turn our backs on Microsoft - no matter how hard that decision is to take - there won't be any going back, unfortunately. I'm not saying developers won't embrace UWP or that Microsoft will cast aside AR within two years of taking your $500. Is he really a CEO ? Gates got it because he understood to compete in the technical arena you must cover the landscape with product. The influx of new customers has also led to evolution of consumer preferences and tastes. I am confident they have something truly amazing in the pipeline (presumably 2019). They were right to focus on the cloud and productivity. What Could Go Wrong For Satya Nadella? TechCrunch 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. Worse-than-expected PC sales would also harm OEM revenues for Microsoft, both from consumers and enterprises. How about that time Microsoft took you out to than new club called Microsoft Music -you were dazzled by the iTunes competitor and so, why not invest in a few songs. Mobile phones are not phones. I can honestly say that it is not stress free and definitely not stable. Has strong global presence and a large distribution network. Nadella: Our industry respects innovation, not tradition - CNET It happpened to IBM, Sears, GE, GM, Kodak, BestBuy, Polaroid, and a host of others. Certain apps were noticeably missing, but it remained a viable platform for many people and was even quite popular in a number of countries outside the US. That's why I am sure Nadella is not making a "mistake" in his mind. Current management thinks they cannot lose because of the Windows desktop dominance, but they are wrong because both consumers and enterprises seek intergrated solutions these days. . Most people in the US don't understand the pull of Nokia as brand. It is a slow and sure death, and current management will leave the mess to their replacements. - Threats of New Entrants because of Reducing Costs and Increasing Efficiencies As Nadella Satya can leverage low cost of reaching customers using social media and e-commerce, so can the competitors both local and international competitors. Apple is not churning the same 100 million users every 6 months. Nadella Satya should just get out of these business areas and focus on strength and threats box , or on weakness and opportunities box. MS was king because the dominated the desktop - all applications had to be written for it to exist. We need to think about unintended consequences of our technology, for example. They only barely made double digits in a handful of places on cheap phones. They would be able to access all data no matter the source, run all the same programs and share one operating system. And if I had an Xbox that would be on Craigslist tonight. Glad I'm not one of them because after year one he needed to be fired or put back in charge of the cloud department and someone else put in charge! Some (Low) percentage would simply not work anyways, depending on how they were written. 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. Satya seems to have loyalty issues, with users, with developers and with Microsoft former employees. Then throw us a carrot and make Messaging Everywhere work. Oh well. 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. Buy NVDA on any tech stock weakness, in the $180 to $220 range. Unreal. They were too far behind and too many people in the market hated MS anyway and werent willing to give them a shot at anything. Where am I going in the future? What should be more concerning to Apple and Google is the ever cozier relationship between the two biggest forces in the cloud, Amazon and MS. The best advice for Microsoft is to release a surface phone that does not look like a phone but is the ultimate device. Huh. Opportunities and Threats are factors that are analyzed in view of the prevalent market forces and other factors such as economic , social, health & safety, technological, legal & environmental, and political. How many news outlets have put negative news about Swelling batteries issue of some phone manufacturer? It doesn't have to compete against companies that make a lot of gadgets. So let's market a phone that is not a phone for the fear of recalling the big fiasco made out of 10% of mobile market share they made out of Windows Phone/windows 10 mobile. This is the guy who wrote Nutella was a genius. Satya Narayana Nadella became Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2014. All except Surface Pros have been ditched by MS. MS cons consumers into investing in its ecosystem then dumps them a year or two later. 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. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. Are you kidding!?!? That issue has to be reconciled. They think they cannot lose the enterprise space, but IBM thought that about OS/2. Jason this is one of the BEST articles I've read by you! 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. How likely are you to continue to believe and trust the Microsoft ecosystem"? 5. Google and Apple are committed and welcome talent. MS has very deliberately started funneling their fans to other platforms this past week and it's very upsetting because I truly love and enjoy Windows Mobile and have used a variation of it for the past 10+ years. March 2, 2022, 9:52 AM PST. Facebook seems to be really putting in the effort with their VR offering. Mobile is the future, and not just for consumers. Let's look at the last 5-7 years. Windows phones were reaching 10% market share in some markets. Consumers that nowadays exist around a mobile ecosystem. MS still dominates most aspects of computer infrastructure and Android/iOS isn't replacing that anytime soon. 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). No big deal. This let users make either Apple or Google that strong hold in their needed mobile lives which in turn dug a whole way too deep for MS to get out of. Consumers and business want a third choice or at the very least they want to be able to decide. Ballmer did, but of course short term profits is what share holders think about. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received just below $55 million worth of compensation in 2022. There are many companies in the world that sell software for more than 20 billion dollars (including Microsoft). Here are 5 insights Nadella shared throughout their discussion that illustrate leadership qualities within the changing workplace. I mean what should force people to keep using Microsoft Office on the mini PCs of the future. yes you guessed correctly that is the smart phones that will be docked like you have seen with Continium. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that his company is prepared to seize market share and grow despite economic uncertainty over inflation in the U.S. and a potential recession in the near. Enterprise customers experience real pain every day thanks to Microsofts unbelievably complex licensing rules, which are practically sadistic. Brazil, France, Canada, UK, India, and Thailand were the countries where more than 40% of their respective populations were using Windows phones. The son of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella died Monday. Time to focus, man. F-YOU MS I'M DONE. 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. Business is going to change as these kids age. Microsoft is really sorry about those other times it deserted you but it loves you - it's getting counseling and turning over a new leaf. I am with the Windows ecosystem because that is what my desktops and laptops are. They dominate in the iPhone That is it. So he's admitting that he's basically screwed the entire company with his boneheaded decisions that we all saw happening before our eyes. You've even way over engineered Visual Studio so much that VB & C# are no long intuitive and much more confusing to use and develop in. Im not going to pretend that I have enough insight or experience to tell Satya Nadella how to run Microsoft. Satya Nadella is a CEO who was born in India. 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. 1. What is Nadella going to do about this apparent lack of caring about consumers? MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY! SWOT Analysis stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that Nadella Satya encounters both internally and in macro environment that it operates in. As a famous man once said, "the evidence is incontravertible." On a MacBook, I like the simplicity of garageband. Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Satya-Nadella, Satya Nadella - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), Microsoft bakes ChatGPT-like tech into search engine Bing. The WMR headsets i mean. Microsoft are fools if they think that they have a future while withdrawing from the consumer market. The highest sales were 10.5 million with 2.7% of the market. Europe is a 500 million people big market so I don't think that's a small market at all. They should consider knocking Nokia's door again to deal a place in their handsets. This is sucky. You're the new CEO of Microsoft! He has no dream or overarching vision. So Nutella just let down windows phone to focus on developping a bunch of Skype bots that nobody talk with? Unfortunately, some folk didn't realize the piece actually addressed all of UWP, not just mobile, The man had more than two choices. Nadella Satya has tried to diversify first using different brands and then by adding various features based on customer preferences. Why did they move to Windows 10 mobile, when they knew the Windows 10 OS was not good to go? If I ever make the switch to another phone, I will share that, but I'm one tough customer to get to change over from something I bought for a reason and I don't see that reason in another product. How much would it really cost to provide support for some company to continue W10M on a phone that it could sell at a profit? 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. Thus, he was biased for Azure and various cloud initiatives. Expansion into international market can help Nadella Satya to tap into international talent market. Market share just did not justify the expenditure for developers. But the then take a heavy sweaty dump on not only the last of the loyal customer base, but ALSO the OEMs, proves that Nadella is basically going to be the end of MS as we know it and in a bad way. We believed in you? Yes, it could be a long time before that end, but the end has to start sometime. Strengths and Weaknesses are often restricted to company's internal - resources, skills and limitations. Windows and MD is in serious trouble because he left the only market that matters. If he really wants to show/repair this divide he has created by constantly abandoning consumers then its time to sit up, stick with the concept of windows phone/mobile, make a cup of coffee and figure it out.. No other way to do it.. A new product will not replace the loyalty and trust lost by throwing out windows phone (just like buying a new cone of ice cream doesn't replace the one that fell.. 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. 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. It's very difficult to tell what is quote, secondary source, or your opinion in these articles. What Microsoft's Satya Nadella thinks about work of the future + Surface RT, and two Surface Pro versions. Hit Refresh describes how Satya Nadella brought new life to Microsoft by rediscovering its "soul" when he took over as CEO in 2014. Next segment is a combination of consumer and professional. Tony Daltorio. You dont need anyserver hardware or server OS licenses, just a Windows Azure instance that you can spin up (meter running) and down (youre off the clock) as needed. Users wanted small things like transparent icons for Skype, office apps landscape mode for start screen. And silence for 2 years from MS, resulting in speculation everywhere, like the guy who wrote this article here. Jason Ward's synopsis "Nadella's broken consumer, developer, and OEM relationships will invariably affect the company's future." So, give them something they are familiar with but with a settingoption where they could useeither Live Tiles or Icons. A heck of a way to treat your customers. The announcement of the end of Groove on 12/31 together with a non-working Spotify app on my phone was the final straw for me. Here in the UK, Aviva uses an app to do just that, so safer drivers have lower insurance premiums. I love Windows Mobile for what it is but I am willing to give other things a shot with the caveat that I am going to very picky about the phone I get. Very true. Just because any phone has a big screen with a high res it does not mean it copied a Lumia! I'm sure this was not the only factor to Windows phone being in the state it's currently in, but I think this has a lot to do with it! Microsoft makes billions every year from the sale of the Android operating system. Almost always on their mobile - probably 99% of calls other than to other companies are made to, and received from mobiles. It would take, at this point a complete 360, but than again they've already done that twice. Terrific job Satya Nadella !!! 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. SINGAPORE November 17, 2022 Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella visited Singapore today to experience first-hand how innovative technologies and insights are supporting the region's technology ecosystem of developers, startups and companies across every industry. There is no recovering from this. Even though it looks really cool, I have a really hard time being sold on their mixed reality. The notion that it wasn't making headway is just a lie. They had huge volume of insiders giving them feedback for free.