On a MacBook, I like the simplicity of garageband. A new concept is really not going to do much because just like a new car/ blanket/ cone of ice cream/ new love.. etc.. doesn't replace the very first (the excitement, anticipation, thrill, vibe, energy can never be thesame), a new project won't replace windows phone in the hearts consumers, no matter whether it fails or succeeds.. But so is the future. Now change the proud tradition, established by your founder Bill. The carriers - at least in America - never supported the OS as they did Apple or Samsung after 7.0 failed to fly. Enabling them to help lower insurance premiums for safe drivers, a vault for safe drivers of sorts. Third category is pure professionals. I can honestly say, I would go back to my windows phone in a heartbeat if it had the same apps and a future. Now all you do is to carve "Microsoft was here" in someone else's tree. Windowsphone never delivered Microsoft Pay but Google and Apple did deliver mobile payments and are exploiting a technology Microsoft have missed. Please. They need to name and market it under a different moniker!!!! I will never understand how a software GIANT can be so damn bad as software. They aren't the only ones. Have a full and frank exchange of ideas in the board room. Perhaps people will not go back right now, but at least they should have kept some marketshare by by not killing win 7 phones, win 8 phones and then now declare end of line for win 10 mobile phones in 2019 July like 2 years after launching two flagship phones(Lumia 950/950 XL) and only one year after HP Elite x3 release and well the recently released Alcaltel Idol 4 phone Also you fail to see the importants of big data and its relations with the smart phones and the built in software such as Google docs and on IOS Numbers. A heck of a way to treat your customers. I stand by that. Of course most people don't know about or use W10 M so they will not be feeling as I do. Sad times. Go. By Satya Nadella Oct 12, 2022. that Microsoft would fill in the mobile device space. Enterprise? One thing no one mentions on here, is the horrible launch and pulling of the KIN PHONES back in May of 2010 on Verizon. I ser they are lagging behind at least 12 months on the back log, despite the current rs3 and 4 roadmap. 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. Microsoft's competitive advantage: Has a well-established brand and reputation built over decades, which provides a strong competitive advantage. This has enabled Nadella Satya to build diverse revenue source and profit mix. So that re-affirms Microsoft is committed to their own platform first and foremost. 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. The MS supporters voiced this over and over and he failed to listen. - Changing Technology Landscape Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence boom is transforming the technology landscape that Nadella Satya operates in. @PATCHERD, There are a bunch of fanboys running around in the dark trying to find the door right now! PC market is diminishing; tablet market is diminishing They have money they can waste now. Everyone was writing about the death of Windows Phone/Mobile, whilst fans were sticking up for it, and Microsoft simply ignored anything about it. Thank you for speaking the truth about Ballmer & Satya pushing things Ballmer already implemented or on his product roadmap. :))) Are you smoking something? 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. It's not that Nadella lacks an ego, and the robust financial results his company has racked up give him undeniable bragging rights. If the PC market sees continued weakness akin to what happened in 2013, PC unit volume could decline until key partner OEMs bow out. That was more true in the 1980's than it is today. If they had demonstrated that resolve, maybe developers would have been more willing to feed an emerging market of users. 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. There have been leaks of Microsoft dual screen MINI TABLETS. Yeah, lets abandon our user base, promise the moon and deliver dirt and then hope they come running back to us. And Apple is amazing but I can't sell my soul to them. I'm really glad I left when I did now cause I would seriously be pissed having spent all this time hoping in something Microsoft never delivered. Give consumers less pricy OS. 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! Love their outlook, and onenote but changes needed. Surface had a solid fourth quarter in 2013, taking in $893 million on revenue. Going to business users was literally following Blackberry to its grave. 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. Finally, he admitted that he made a FUBAR! 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. 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- ). It appears that Microsoft has forgotten how to be successful, please your customers. But neither has Windows on PC, albeit some can run it. 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. With MS targeting enterprise and neglecting individual consumers, I just can't see them staying relevant. This approach can lead to poor public relation and customer backlash. I am one of those MS loyalists who believed all the hype (now looking like BS) about Windows utility and productivity across all platforms. I "personally" spent over $3,000 on Windows Phones and now it's all down the drain!!! 8 years? WP7 was the transition from Windows mobile and kept all of it's functionality in a touch environment similar to WM 6.5. At the end of a surprisingly eventful, exciting presentation of Windows 11, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came on the video feed to deliver some closing remarks. Maybe it's not too late. Abandoning the consumer space is insane. Or that employees/consumers with Android or Apple phones are going to adopt MS's AI, MR, Cortana, Edge, etc., etc. My, how time flies. As developers we embrace new technologies, and most of us have spent much money and many hours learning it. Time to put some Europeans in the MS Board! (Like gmail instead of outlook mail and calendar). I left Windows Phone with the cancellation of the McLaren for Android. In fact, I would say Nadella and the Board are collectively insane. Those budget phone buyers were never going to drive app development. He's a first grade FOOL. The Organizational Development solutions & strategies has helped Nadella Satya in coming up with unique solution to tap the un-catered markets. we also need to put the blame on AT&T. Instead they killed it with their lack of interest. I feel betrayed and very disappointed. They embraced the browser market and extended it with special html handling. Nadella cowrote (with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols) Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsofts Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone (2017), which included a discussion of his life as well as his thoughts on technology and leading. That was the finding of a survey on corporate attitudes by Microsoft Corp ., the workplace software giant and owner of LinkedIn. surely not - there will be books written about how they failed in that area. That marks a 10% increase compared to 2021. The notion that it wasn't making headway is just a lie. Payments is a good example. Quit being so stupid and open All devices to All carriers, Idiots. Now that the dust has cleared on the CEO question, those who hoped for the role and did not get it could exit. How hard this could be? I'll probably end up getting it elsewhere from someone that will actually support it. I'm done with MS. The global PC market is expected to contract a few points this year, and then bottom out in 2015. Satya is just like this but on steroids. Then they get all defensive when the backlash is real. Yet another dumb Nutella decision. Yes, it could be a long time before that end, but the end has to start sometime. Nadella has said from the get go that Microsoft is committed to mobile. 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. Still hope Xbox is not yet another division to be dropped. So all the while Joe B was tap-dancing away for dear life to keep it afloat, Satya was making a throat-slashing sign in the background. It had features that the iPhone couldn't simply do until the iPhone 3 came out. I'm worried about the state of the software. All to be left again, while they "retrench" themselves in another category. Most people in the US don't understand the pull of Nokia as brand. Leaders with inspirational motivation traits provide employees with a set of shared goals and the vision necessary to attain them. They dominate in the iPhone That is it. It's far easier to hold on to customers than it is to acquire them. The fact that Google did and Microsoft didn't is, well, rather sad in my view. 2023 ZDNET, A Red Ventures company. He has more commitment, vision, drive, passion and focus than this assclown running microsoft. ". Until now Microsoft has let all their phone users down. Of course it was a mistake Nutella. Why doesn't Microsoft modify Windows 10 to allow you to make phone calls? Regards Figuring out the planto get from clunky licenses to a subscription-based future will be a key challenge for Nadella. noun 225 views What really killed it though was the repeated reboots of mobile since WP7 where they left everyone in the dust moving forward. Now I use a Pixel it doesn't really talk with my PC. 18 Other Top Book Recommends From Satya Nadella. Nadella IS committed to Windows Mobile - er - Windows ON mobile. After all, I'm 'only' a consumer! Satya went for the cheap option. 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. And finally, it has been an assumption that Nadella will have full avail of Microsofts cadre of executive vice presidents. Window phone was dead 2 years ago when it wasn't making enough profit for too long. I was going to buy a new Surface Laptop. Microsoft had one drink too many and roughed your checkbook up a little. People used to say that about the original Xbox, but then MS went out and paid for great games. 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. Silly statement !! 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 . TRYING VERY HARD? Making room for it in your Zune memory drawer? Maybe it's a symptom of their hiring practices and cost cutting, but too many people who work at MS don't actually like the company. MS has to get into mobile to stay relevant - even with business WP had no developer to speak of and there was 0% chance of it ever challenging Android oriOS. You can create superb augmented reality but if people are using it on the device people have in their pocket you are lost. Please don't waste my time anymore with these kind of articles. 8. Hope in one hand s h I t in the other. 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. MS didn't have the foresight to see that they didn't have to sell the OS to monetize it. 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. What's the world coming to,Trump's president and Microsoft thinks 3 steps backward is the way forward.Gave up on VR when I stopped buying desktops over 10 years ago,was fun,but only for 15 mins.Gaming laptops were just too good for the money,now phones are way too easy to do everything on.Can't go backwards,anyone got some sort of Ubuntu running on a 950xl?Sideways is better than backwards. The main problem here is that people can actually find free substitutes for those. "Everybody is waking up and saying leadership and management and technological excellence go together." Facebook seems to be really putting in the effort with their VR offering. Yes. - Credit Binge post 2008 Recession Easy access to credit can be over any time, so Nadella Satya should focus on reducing its dependence on debt to expand. Why would you want to piss them off? For example, more will start use google docs and storage (due to integration with phone etc.) I searched (and still do and I don't know why) every day looking for the next MS mobile phone such a waste of time. It was doomed to failure, and it did fail. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. No they didn't What would have stopped him from saying "you know what, we need a mobile platform. Windroid [andromeda OS for consumers]. Just how much will Satya Nadella get paid? The problem I see is multi-faceted and not just about, "You have no phones for consumers." It is good that he has regrets, but too little --. And he did come in at the end of it. Let native APK to run on Windows Mobile and Windows desktop. Microsoft was plagued by the . 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's heart was in the right place. Spotyfi does not work at all on my Lumia 950 XL When starting, 5 dots passes over the screen for several minutes. Are you kidding!?!? I fail to see any good outcomes here. - First Mover Advantage Nadella Satya has first mover advantage in number of segments. > How many toy manufactures, production companies (film/tv), IoT. The Nokia deal is about to bring a huge chunk of new staff into Microsofts business roughly at the same time that it is picking up a new leader. After a mere 2 months, Microsoft pulled this phone, the Kin one and Kin two. Let's look at the last 5-7 years. Strengths and Weaknesses are often restricted to companys internal - resources, skills and limitations. Integrate the Nokia division without bloodshed. Satya Nadella will never read WC thread but, a "global survey of PO'd users" might get picked up by the Press? HE SHOULD READ ALOT OF BOOK!!! Without mobile they will dissappear in years to come. (I know that is carcastic, but there is a bit of truth therein) There was no commitment to follow through. You have any data to show any meaningful increase in sales? Many of us are tired of being abused by a company that used us then left us hanging high and dry. Hell, I do too. So, give them something they are familiar with but with a settingoption where they could useeither Live Tiles or Icons. 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. (I know that is sarcastic, but there is a bit of truth therein) There was no commitment to follow through. Always keep learning. le Putting the best features of Windows on other eco systems isn't magically going to bring people over to MS. But that does not make him good on the PC or a smartphone or understand anything about the consumer. When Nadella was named CEO of Microsoft on Feb. 4, 2014, Microsoft's market cap was about $311 billion, the cloud was a poorly understood and peripheral element in corporate strategy and the company was widely regarded as a once-great institution whose best days were in the rear-view mirror. ), but remove a mobile device and much of what we use is stationary. FOLKS PERHAP WE WILL SEE MICROSOFT DEBUT AND SELL A MINI TABLET CELL PHONES HYBRID DEViCE. (Hint: Thats not likely to involve spinning off Bing, which has an important role to playat the core of other products.). Well said, Jason, well said. In 2016 Nadella oversaw the acquisition of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking Web site. So Nutella just let down windows phone to focus on developping a bunch of Skype bots that nobody talk with? The Surface Phone has been promised for YEARS! 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. I think with the news of the demise of windows phone and groove are the pivotal sign, that consumer focus is traded for strictly business oriented investment (whatever that means). 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. 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. Why does Microsoft need to be in the phone/mobile OS market? Microsoft should get off the market share thing and make a great product. 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. I think we will see the opposite now that mobile is king. Ok maybe im a fan boy but if they do release a new lte device what's the problem. Unless Microsoft also got more into the hardware like Apple, then it would be a real big market. Lastly sort out new tabs in edge so they open up to the users home page or and page of choice. Good, but completely and utterly useless, worth a poofteenth of nothing unless you actually demonstrate you've learned your lesson by acting to correct your mistake. Why would I ever take the chance on a new Microsoft product when they could dump it like they have before. People hanging about in a burning house while walls fell down around them and ash filled their lungs, smh. Spotify doesn't work on my 950 either, I get the same revolving dots as you. Now Windows 10 Mobile too. I don't see AR/VR/MR/whateverR becoming much of a universal platform. 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. There is was one path forward as I see it. According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston of Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study, this can lead to inability on part of the organization to increase prices that its premium prices deserve. But what really happened? On top of that, all of Apples 100 million phones sold in 6 months are still in use 2 years later. 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. Sorry, but that is just a lie. Not to mention, updates for Win 10 & applications are poorly done and tested, which makes them a dice roll every time, as you cross your fingers that nothing breaks on your systems. I think MS has decided to maintain a strong footprint in games (XBox, PC) to ensure every so many years there are unique games that go with Xbox releases to differentiate from Sony. MS its late but not completely out of race. Seriously, Nadella is an example of the Peter Principle and MS needs new leadership that can harness the enthusiasm of their devs and customers to re-introduce Win phones and improve their offerings & quality across the board. Belfiore was/is incompetenthe is the harbinger of doom for anything he touched including WP Yeah it was pretty much over when he was caught with an iphone on vacation with his family a few years ago lol. Also, I was a Band user and a Surface 2 RT user MS has lost my trust as the only things that are actually still supported are my laptop and my Xbox (though they don't really do anything with the Kinect anymore). Even the iphone needed a reboot every week or two. And PC volume has been the savior of the Windows 8.x platform as it has slowly arranged its ducks in a row. 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. - Organization Culture It seems that organization culture of Nadella Satya is still dominated by turf wars within various divisions, leading to managers keeping information close to their chests. Mobile is not the biggest software market in the world. 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. He obviously had a plan and in hindsight not a good one. Allow Android app developers to publish their apps in the store just like native UWP apps but wrapped up like x86 apps are with the Project Centennial bridge. One thing Nadella failed to realize is In professionals want simplicity and with a BYOD business they have choice in the products used. Satya had every intention of killing this platform and every step he made ensured it's demise. HP would have felt the love and support they want and continued to develop the line in conjunction or beside the mythical Andromeda device as a more "phone like" iteration and a solid OEM partner would be there. Once, IBM was known for their computers, but then they changed focus from the individual to the corporation. Let's go back to Windows Millennium - remember how it was a new exciting release and that, even though it sucked, they had service packs coming that would usher in a whole new user experience. Microsoft makes billions every year from the sale of the Android operating system. I can honestly say that it is not stress free and definitely not stable. Apple is an amazing system for user interface . It's just business. I read once that it was estimated that over 100,000,000 (100 million) WINDOWS MOBILE PHONES have been sold over the life time of Windows Mobile. 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. All rights reserved. If people aren't using Microsoft in their personal lives, it won't even enter their heads to use it in their commercial lives. The few million people who owned windows phones I guarantee were Microsoft's biggest fans. Roll your sleeves up and put in some work Nadella/Microsoft.. Because if you can't make windows phone work..Then I wonder.. what cat was riding a fire breathing unicorn? My L950 is still kicking. Look at Corvette. He has no dream or overarching vision. I have 2 Windows Mobiles and I am still eyeing for an HP Elite X3. So seen in that light I think Microsoft is doing damn well by supporting us until 2019. Look inside most of our elementary schools. 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. 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. Yeah, short term the shareholders are making money, but long term I think this could be the beginning to the end for Microsoft. It would take, at this point a complete 360, but than again they've already done that twice. "I did not get why the world needed the third ecosystem in phones, unless we changed the rules." The windows phone works well for integration to server based sytems, whether they are corporate or personal enterprises. - he made stock holders some money. That sh*t just doesn't add up. But what a mistake they made by not fighting harder, longer, and with more passion to stay relevant in the mobile space. To hell with MS. Good luck being with being purely an enterprise OS and an office supplier. Thats not to diminish the fact that Windows Phone itself needs all the developer attention it can muster. They stupidly justified every move of Microsoft instead of criticizing it. One of Nadellas first major tasks was overseeing the completion of Microsofts $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia Corp.s mobile-device business, a transaction that had been announced in 2013 despite the reservations of various Microsoft executives, one of whom reportedly was Nadella. I'm a full-time user of OneNote, One Drive, and Outlook. 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. 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. Microsoft is no longer the giant it used to be, and apparently is digging its own grave. So Microsoft is going to fix abandoning consumers doing it again and again and again? Worse, it would still not have theMOBILE apps that iOS and Androidhave. But the mere cost of Surface revenue was more than the revenue itself, meaning that the larger Surface loss for the period was much larger than you might think. Once, they held conferences announcing new operating systems and individuals went to the conference. He will destroy MS. Now I sit here here in disbelief. Microsoft is now worth more than $2.26 trillion. 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. It doesn't pass the Star Trek Tech test: There's gazillions of handheld devices in the Star Trek universe. all history now. A few apps on iOS and android will do nothing to change that as Microsoft become a forgotten company for the vast majority of users. Yet MS still makes the industry standard enterprise software. No Windows/Microsoft mobiles means no OS that makes Microsoft Office relevant. 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. My windows phones were always stable and reliable (except when I got on preview builds). Microsoft reported earnings on Tuesday, and its cloud growth is slowing down. hprbl/ "I did not get why the world needed the 'fourth' ecosystem in 'Cloud Solutions', unless we changed the rules." It's happening right under our nose and in 2 years all tabloids will say hey we did not see that coming.. God I hope you'r right! How they turned their early lead, and the potential for synergy with Nokia into zilch is truly remarkable. Related stories. Not true. Azure could slip against Amazons AWS with Nadellas leadership tied up elsewhere. BS! Maybe they didn't want anymore after that. Satya Nadella, chief executive officer said in . Google and Apple worked out a long time ago that Mobile is VERY important. 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.