It would significantly provide an assistance to avail the opportunities of the external business environment. I buy more books than I can finish. It's a follower and they don't want to admit itsad. If there was one bone-head move in recent times I would reverse it would have been leaving HP out to dry. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Is World's #1 CEO: 5 Reasons Why It seems he does not consider the consequences and we consumers are the ones paying the price. Silverlight, WindowsRT, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Microsoft Band, Skype (Consumer End), Windows Phone, Nokia, Windows 10 Mobile, and now Groove and we could probably read the tea leaves to see what's next. I was right. Microsoft failed badly in the early stages of marketing and screwed its most loyal users. Go. Zero trust in that company anymore, zero. Bill Gates will spend a portion of his time at the company assisting with product choices. When I switched to the LG G6 I decided to give Google's services a try and let's be honest other than office Google's offerings are better than Microsoft's especially on an android phone. How many toy manufactures, production companies (film/tv), IoT, lifestyle (airport/bank/taxi/fast food etc) have an app/game. With MSFT once spearheading this path it has let many of us to a cul-de-sac. The fact that it was hard enough to get a 920 din't help. I still love my now essentially abandoned 950XL. There should be no tears shed for a company that does not need the consumers! According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston , there is huge scope of improvement in inventory management. It's very early days for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and for the company's overhaul from a 1990s PC company to a service and cloud company. Dongles on the TV ( Firestick anyone ), Handhelds..etc.. So the Surface and tablets can use Android Apps like an Android tablet would do. I'm very happy with my iPhone. 10 years? The 920,1020 were some of the most talked about sp(smartphone) on themarket during that time. For years, he's never given a straight answer to anything, especially Win phones. Once, IBM was known for their computers, but then they changed focus from the individual to the corporation. Nearly 30 percent, to be precise. But I do think I have a pretty good handle on the challenges hes facing right now. That's the role I had hoped (and still hope?) But why not as long as Microsoft keep raking in the $$$. The truth is that they drop a very good system that is starting to work very well. This presents Nadella Satya two big challenges how to maintain loyal customers and how to cater to the new customers. "My response is very eastern: We're making great progress, but we should never be done."1 The "lost decade" Just 17 days after founder and technical whizz Bill Gates handed over the reins to Steve Ballmer in 2000, the stock market crashed. March 2, 2022, 9:52 AM PST. The notion that it wasn't making headway is just a lie. \'he\'s got strong preferences,\' says satya. (See Gene Wilder in The Producers.). - 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. Congratulations, you got lucky. Yet MS still makes the industry standard enterprise software. Thats Nadellas new problem. That's more than just fanboys. 39 Most Inspiring Satya Nadella Quotes On Success (2023) - Unico Things 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. Users wanted small things like transparent icons for Skype, office apps landscape mode for start screen. "First, I believe that, at its most powerful, technology can be a force for good in the world," he says. Here are some of Satya Nadella's recommended books from the past that are also worth reading. If that's not true, and they are actually trying to save Windows, then I agree, they are making a mistake. 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. You can create the greatest OS known to man, but without apps the platform will be DOA. Emails? That just doesn't look true to me - WP had significant market share and was growing for several years. I stand by that. 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. I mean for now they are great systems if you use OneDrive and windows 10 pc. Nadella needs to be replaced. Let the more committed companies lead the world into the future! What he fails to see are the longterm effects of his short term decisions. I will watch and see! I've owned Zune/Groove, WinMo 6.x, Lumia 900, 640, Yezz Billy 8, and Now Lumia 950. There are plenty of third party companies that will build their own version of windows devices if they are getting support from MS but if you turn away from them now I can be pretty positive they won't be so willing to take a chance on any new developments later ( fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me). Microsoft will be extremely vulnerable without a mobile presence. Movies and TV will be next. I just got my android phone and my subscription to WPS office. It's very easy to ignore Windows UWP, since Microsoft itselfs it not doing much UWP apps. (He works in for Microsoft in Texas). It is a crying shame that MS keeps coming out with innovative products but fails to follow up on developing the products. Windows 10 has the numbers and we see new good quality apps appearing in the store on a daily basis. Who Satya Nadella is: the career path of a top executive. When this is cut off thre is no real reason to stay with MSFT and all of a sudden a laptop with Chrome linked to a Google account and an Android Phone becomes a possibility or a Macbook with Apple account and an iPhone also become a possibility. They cancel products and services without thinking twice and assuming that consumers just have money to throw around to buy new products and services Since taking the top job, he doubled down on artificial intelligence (A), social networking and cloud computing, while pushing the firm to become more collaborative, innovative and customer focused. American computer scientist and entrepreneur, American software executive and space tourist, South Korean physician, educator, and entrepreneur. As TechCrunch reported: Critically, Windows OEM revenue for the period only declined 3 percent, a figure that was cushioned by 12 percent more OEM revenue to commercial customers. 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. Apple and Google leak like seives and MS know they keep their cache with the big reveals. Speakers Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Geneva Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corp. Podcast transcript Topics: Tech and Innovation Share: More episodes: md md Its demise seems engineered by the current CEO. They will fail at AR/VR etc with the same gusto. > How many toy manufactures, production companies (film/tv), IoT. That may not be the case. Frankly, he does not understand the "Consumer Space" AT ALL (at least now he admits it.) Nuttela's Puffer-in-Chief LOL. 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. Those are very different things, actually they have nothing in common. Almost always on their mobile - probably 99% of calls other than to other companies are made to, and received from mobiles. Windows Azure, Microsofts IaaS and PaaS cloud computing could services slip given that Nadellas attention will be now more broadly distributed. Enterprise customers experience real pain every day thanks to Microsofts unbelievably complex licensing rules, which are practically sadistic. And silence for 2 years from MS, resulting in speculation everywhere, like the guy who wrote this article here. I am still using one drive, one note and outlook. Win 10 pcs are nowhere near 1.5 billion, and never will be. They need to name and market it under a different moniker!!!! It happpened to IBM, Sears, GE, GM, Kodak, BestBuy, Polaroid, and a host of others. Look at actual sales numbers, not percentages of some small markets. Most mobile phone carriers are bundling ever more minutes and texts in plans because people have moved to data. Unreal. Nadella Satya can use two approaches - building on present strengths, or analyze the trend and build processes to two pronged market penetration approach. Microsoft had one drink too many and roughed your checkbook up a little. He will destroy MS. Jason this is one of the BEST articles I've read by you! They aren't the only ones. By unifying the underlying core, Microsoft was on the cusp of branching it all together but we all know what happened, the decisions, miss steps and burned bridges is why we do not have a thriving UWP developmental uptake. Would be nice if the people that bought 950 or 950 XLs could get some kind of compensation or at least an apology. 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. This is a more general risk, but a portion of Microsofts recovery thus far is due to macroeconomic conditions outside of its control. 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. Keep the hardware division growing fast. It's tough to grow anything without seeds. Thats not to diminish the fact that Windows Phone itself needs all the developer attention it can muster. 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. Nadella will come out of this looking like a savior. 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. Regards Windows phone really was caught between a rock and a hard place. Microsoft's (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella on Q3 2022 Results - SeekingAlpha It isn't the guy digging for gold who gets rich, but rather the guy that sells the shovel. Finding Mastery: Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO on Apple Podcasts I know there were major issues, but these little things improve daily life of the end user And that's what matters. I'm actually considering holding my nose and going to Apple in the hope of finding some systemic consistency. Through that they get OneDrive customers and Microsoft office customers and even earn fine revenue on servers. Is he really a CEO ? 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. Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a growth mindset case Case Microsoft WILL not gain from making their Windows 10 for desktops free as they need that business right now. By the time MS started giving it away,OEM's were invested in Android and had no incentive to look in any other direction. Sure there are a handful but nowhere what Microsoft had if it had not abandoned consumers. Was that a marketing ploy also? I know because I still have one. (I know that is sarcastic, but there is a bit of truth therein) There was no commitment to follow through. Hell, I can buy this to my parents, because they do only common stuff on it Give me a call when you hit 51% anywhere consumer market based. no not old desktops. 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. They dabbled in PCs for a few years, but then got out. Clearly Microsoft doesn't see it. Your arguments about why this is a mistake are all very true and obvious. 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. 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. Satya seems to have loyalty issues, with users, with developers and with Microsoft former employees. It's Too Soon To Judge Satya Nadella | TechCrunch Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shares his thoughts on work from home culture. He has spent the majority of his career working on enterprise software and was only recently appointed to lead Microsoft's consumer businesses. 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. Across Europe/Aus/NZ many use a mobile and ISP provided digital hub/smart tv to access what they need. It just doesnt have apps. Window phone was dead 2 years ago when it wasn't making enough profit for too long. They've completely ignored the most faithful consumer base of the company. We know now how that turns out. I am currently in the process of selling my 3 Windows Phones, XBox One, Surface Laptop and Band and I will be switching over to another OS and believe you me I will NOT be downloadiing any apps or software that is associated with Microsoft and I hope many many others follow suite. If he'd have done the same thing with PCs that he did with phones, we wouldn't even be talking about Microsoft anymore. There were rumblings since last year that WM was going to be killed off yet no one came out and gave an official word other than crap about "being committed to mobile". Congratulations, Satya Nadella. Not only is the phone going to die, but Win10 updates disable their own MS software. I have no doubt Microsoft will be successful long-term, but Nadella is morphing the Microsoft DNA completely away from consumer-facing products & services, and probably also away from front-end Enterprise products & services, concentrating strictly on cloud-base services and back-end infrastructure at the internet level. It's a given Nadella will continue to push Windows Azure and Office 365, where hes been instrumental in their impressive growth so far. It was doomed to failure, and it did fail. Until now Microsoft has let all their phone users down. My 950XL still works and I like it and the W10M approach. Tony Daltorio. Some of them will barely break even, and some may lose money in any one quarter, but if you focus on the cloud and enterprise customers only, you will quickly become irrelevant. Nadella had to get that message or they will relegated to be the next IBM as others have said. In hindsight, I'm convinced it was doomed from the beginning. You might get lucky but I'm not betting on you any more. And devs don't care for users that buy 100$ phones. Android is not all that great, even though it was either that or an expensive iPhone with no way to use the MS apps by default. Seriously? In effect it has contributed to its own entropy. That doesnt appear to be the case. I already sell my HP elite x3, but I still using windows phone 10 with my ex Lumia 930. This approach can lead to poor public relation and customer backlash. They are still abandoning consumers, see Groove Music Pass. Nadella needs to find a way to increase tablet sales, a device class that I suspect uses Windows Store apps on a larger per-unit scale than other form factors. Certainly, I'm not qualified to see the future or manage a multinational corporation, but even with phones being a money pit, it's one of those investments that look to me like a necessity, like Bing was. Microsoft is in for a world of hurt regarding operating systems or app stores going forward. Consumers that nowadays exist around a mobile ecosystem. Satya Nadella: Don't Spy on Employees to Ensure They're Working And in his own words too, it is not about phone as a separate device category, it is about remaining relevant in personal computing where phone is just one of the form factors. That might not happen. It really is sad that Nadella were so short sighted. I can only remember Windows Mobile 7.5/8 being so stable that I'd go months without a reboot. I don't have any advice, but I think I have a pretty good idea of what's on the new boss's to-do list. Silverlight, WindowsRT, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Microsoft Band, Skype (Consumer End), Windows Phone, Nokia, Windows 10 Mobile, and now Groove and we could probably read the tea leaves to see what's next. Satya Nadella - Chairman and CEO - Microsoft | LinkedIn Long time (I'm 46!) Finally, he admitted that he made a FUBAR! So he admits it? It's far easier to hold on to customers than it is to acquire them. yeah and at one point Windows Mobile 6.5 had something like 20% marketshare in USA, and over 60% in EU. Windows Phone just worked, but with each release they took away more and more features and broke other ones. I agree with everyone on here! Personally, I'd return to Windows mobile if they had a decent offering on Verizon. And finally, it has been an assumption that Nadella will have full avail of Microsofts cadre of executive vice presidents. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. We can all appreciate that thirst for knowledge. The kids are seeing a daily dose of Apple and Chrome. I agree with your comment, but here we both are in other ecosystems still reading W10 mobile news lol Hard habit to break. To them, if one aspect of infrastructure is failing, you cut it out and either replace it with a better part or you cut it out and re-route, as that's the cheapest option with a lower lead time. Huh. Then we get them bought by HP. Too little too late for me. The launchers and Cortana they came out with on Android are nice, but they didn't even bother to properly integrate Cortana into the launcher. (No, I haven't timed for how long, but but more that 5 minutes. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. And PC volume has been the savior of the Windows 8.x platform as it has slowly arranged its ducks in a row. Anyway, Jason, I enjoy your articles, quixotic as they are at times :). Will Microsoft abandon this thing in a year or two like he did with phones?". Mobile phones are not phones. all running on a appstore controlled by Microsoft. I like that idea. Pretty logic to me. Disney's DMA contract already wasn't renewed. 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- ). Trying to spin off either product into separate teams or (shudder) businessesis a recipe for chaos. It will destroy the last Microsoft mobile fans left and leave a real bad reputation for Microsoft as a company. LOL, the only thing worth copying from a Lumia was the camera technology. Instead they tried the other way around and failed. Not true. Most infrastructure people do not get transitional stages or phases. If you pretend to be a global player you'd better have people in your Board that are connected to the different regions you want to serve, so that also goes for Asia-Pacific, China etc. They would be able to access all data no matter the source, run all the same programs and share one operating system. An original Xbox, 5 different Xbox 360's(red ring of death on two of them(! Enabling them to help lower insurance premiums for safe drivers, a vault for safe drivers of sorts. 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. Have already made the switch and though I miss windows phone, I have to say I'm much happier cause everything works. I can't imagine Nadella doesn't realise this will happen he's the CEO after all. 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. Moving forward, the 1520 simply needed a refresh and would have been quite a nice threesome with the 950 and 950xl. After the 3rd, 4th 5th time they get it wrong, I'm sure you would write off that place from getting your money and time, because they clearly can't or don't care about your service. A mythical, moving target, Surface handheld device that hasn't seen the light of day yet after 4 or 5 years? Even IF they ship another new phone device with real windows 10 then WHY in earth should the current fan base care? I hope Nadella has jotted down a note to himself: Do not attempt to re-create Ballmer developers video. Now even UWP apps will die soon without any comitment to mobile platform. Except if you paid sometimes after accepting agrements, but if you did, please tell us what? Windows is famous for still being Windows even on a low end cheap as piece of plastic. A lack of mobile has meant that it has no "non-tech" information feeding in to change help its narrative. According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston of Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study, Nadella Satya can use this trend to expand in adjacent areas Leadership, Organizational culture. Large organizations should welcome such scrutiny. He adapted the idea to encourage employees to shift from Microsoft's historical "know-it-all" culture to embrace a "learn-it-all" curiosity. Plus, Win32 apps are running in emulation. They would have been the first to buy mixed reality devices and paid monthly for Xbox gold and Groove. Leaders with inspirational motivation traits provide employees with a set of shared goals and the vision necessary to attain them. The providers didn't offer them, andwhen they finally didget some in stock, he employees knew nothing about them and actively discouraged anyone from buying them. What are Satya Nadella's strengths as Microsoft's CEO? - Quora Satya Narayana Nadella (Telugu: , / n d l /; born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-American business executive. All of this is training the customer to realize more and more that they don't need Microsoft and their "ecosystem" anymore How can he NOT see that!?!?! In fact, in our consulting firm I am the only one left with knowledge and there is no push for others to train. He took over as CEO in 2014 and has since led Microsoft through a period of significant growth and transformation. 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! 3. So it wasn't completely stupid as long as it was the only way to stay in the race until you figure out something better. Satya Nadella - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Amy Hood - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Alice Jolla - Chief Accounting Officer Keith Dolliver - Deputy General. Just dropped us like a hot potato. And because of e-sim technology, OneCore etc. Hei Nadella! Plus many government agencies were selecting windows phones for security reasons. Then I hope Microsoft phone are on their feet again. Not much progress for all your efforts! Instead they killed it with their lack of interest. A strong desktop market would entice many app developers to implement at least some UWP features making the Windows based app experience minimally equal to native Android but in some cases, better because of the Windows unique integration.