Maybe other basic apps like To-Do or even Windows Central? Does MS really think that Google and Apple are going to let it provide the cutting edge apps and services on their OS? Strengths come from positive aspects of five key resources & capabilities - physical resources such as land, building, financial resources, past experiences and successes, human resources, and activities & processes . - Lack of critical talent I believe that Nadella Satya is suffering from lack of critical talent especially in the field of technology & digital transformation. They simply do not respond to touch. Even my 85 year old mom relies on mobile and MS turns it back. Let the more committed companies lead the world into the future! I use/have android and iOS devices and I have to say I prefer the 950. He obviously had a plan and in hindsight not a good one. 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. Whether or not Microsoft want to admit it was their own decision to give up when in fact they had a growing market with thanks to the Nokia team. I'm actually considering holding my nose and going to Apple in the hope of finding some systemic consistency. Microsoft would prefer more secure customers running shiny new Windows 7 or 8 boxes. The party has lasted for more than a decade and rollback from Fed can result in huge interest costs for Nadella Satya. Android at the time was basically percieved as a touch version of symbian. Nadella was also executive vice president in charge of the companys cloud computing platform, which provided the infrastructure for such Microsoft offerings as the online search engine Bing, the Xbox Live broadband gaming network, and the Office 365 subscription-based services. Nadella had to get that message or they will relegated to be the next IBM as others have said. 5. I'm not bitter or angry - that takes too much energy - just a little heartbroken because I have to give up something I love. 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. As is, whatever they do, they will do without OEM support at first, which could be tricky. Sorry, but that is just a lie. As a famous man once said, "the evidence is incontravertible." 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. All I know is that I now sit here with an Lumia 950 XL phone that will loose apps support faster than water runs down the strain. That marks a 10% increase compared to 2021. It was a damn fool thing to abandon WM10. I've been on Android for a year now, full time since the S8 came out. Satya Narayana Nadella has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft by succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 and under him, the company had witnessed considerable growth. But iOS still can't do everything that I was able to do very easily and happily on WinPhone8. But that does not make him good on the PC or a smartphone or understand anything about the consumer. Satya Nadella, Microsoft Chairman and CEO, in a session at the Annual Meeting, told Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum, that a golden age of AI is under way and will redefine work as we know it. From high hopes to seeing what a low life he really is. I don't see AR/VR/MR/whateverR becoming much of a universal platform. Business is going to change as these kids age. It is written by Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston and deals with topics in areas such as Organizational Development Leadership, Organizational culture Which they were supposed to use to build the best mobile platform. yeah and at one point Windows Mobile 6.5 had something like 20% marketshare in USA, and over 60% in EU. Windows Phone was the middle ground between the jungle of inconsistency and trouble that was - and still is - Android, and the pretentious, fake shiny, limited walled garden of Apple. Thus, he was biased for Azure and various cloud initiatives. I see autistics as a gifted people to humanity. Im not sure its possible to rationalize the existing licensing schemes for on-premises software (Windows Server, Windows desktop, Office, and all the management tools and add-ons). (Like gmail instead of outlook mail and calendar). I don't really have any other smartphone experience to compare it to, but I do know how a phone looks is part of what catches my eye and I have, to this day, have not seen one phone that is as eye-catching as Window Phone's transparent tiles and what you can do with them to create an awesome home screen. Whats next Xbox, then Surface? - 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. Thats where therolling-up-the-sleeves partbegins. Define the line between business and consumer. They dominate in search and Android, maybe IoT, but that is questionable. WP8.1 and the aquistion of Nokia was arguably either a desparate or ingenious move at the time because it offered the possiblity of a hero mobile device that directly could have competed with Apple's product but also allowed the license to be available to other oems similar to Android. I switched because I needed too, not because I wanted too. I enjoyed it! When MS released Windows 8 (desktop) and WP 8. What are you going to do next? Personally, to me is rather obviously simple however to many it won't be. - 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. Bigger than the US obviously. Don't need them. 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. So I have to bring an extra MP3 player when traing next year? How can MS kill its own future? By India Today Tech: Most companies, regardless of their sector, are calling employees back to the office now that COVID cases have dropped significantly. If Google made a Google laptop running android with similar interface to Windows. Do you even marketing bro? 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.. If this trend keeps up, there will be little to no need for our consultants to even know Microsoft products. Google and Apple worked out a long time ago that Mobile is VERY important. DO NOT bring back gates. You just don't understand the difference between the 'patent' and 'operating system'. As an OS company, I don't understand how MS seems to have failed to grasp is that "consumer" = "enterprise." Decided to Not buy an Xbox. So their sole purpose was to select the highest priority ones and focus development on that. They will naturally go with what they know, which won't be Microsoft. I looked into that and once again it would require rewriting and they wonder why, other than marketshare, developers stayed away they couldn't provide stability. A low cost, touch device, similar to the Surface. We need to think about unintended consequences of our technology, for example. Why even would they drop the already established product? If you feel that you've constantly let consumers down (which actually you have) then do something to bridge that gap. 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. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014. abandon consumer market is a bad choose Heres a thought, why not sell Windowsphone to HDM or whoever bought Nokia. Instead of that they rushed W10 mobile out of door without propper testing and made the whole world to laugh at them But in general it was a culmination of stupid moves at that time. There is only one near-term way Microsoft could save mobile. How many of those 100 million Windows phones are still in use? The culprit is Microsoft, The culprit is Microsoft for marketing and manufacturing phones. They stupidly justified every move of Microsoft instead of criticizing it. I still use my Xbox for games primarily and entertainment at home (Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc. 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. I will say I diddefend the guy from time to time but now, after buying into the hardware and software game from Microsoft and then finding out later, they scrap it anyways. Trust and believe that if MS were offering me something new right now with full Windows and a stylus to follow up my 1520, I'd be all over it. 18 Other Top Book Recommends From Satya Nadella. It'll have to be an Android as the one-button design of iOS makes me want to throw it against a wall but I also know the parts of Android that I don't care for and I'm not looking forward to tweaking it in an attempt to give me the exact experience I want. I left Windows Phone with the cancellation of the McLaren for Android. Windows and MD is in serious trouble because he left the only market that matters. With great sadness, I powered off my Idol 4s for the last time last night and shortly aftert powered on my Note 8. Google can get into cloud services easily. But it that is true, why did they kill Groove? BS! A heck of a way to treat your customers. 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!?!?! There should be no tears shed for a company that does not need the consumers! when Google and Apple are successfully marketing their own products? "How long are you going to string your users along this time?" Microsoft was among the first companies to exceed a $1 trillion valuation when it hit that milestone in April 2019. Your arguments about why this is a mistake are all very true and obvious. This lack of experience could be a detriment as Microsoft seeks to compete more directly with Apple and Google. The fact that Google did and Microsoft didn't is, well, rather sad in my view. No one mentions this and I feel it was detrimental to Microsoft going forward in Mobile, because in the U.S., Verizon is the biggest carrier. 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. I noticed MS focused more and more on this third segment. MS still dominates most aspects of computer infrastructure and Android/iOS isn't replacing that anytime soon. 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. "Well-being is one of the most important pieces of productivity management 2. Dont piss off too many partners. It's about time Nadella and Microsoft showed some loyalty to us and themselves as well.. Not only will they earn respect but it'll also be a rallying point.. Game of Thrones should have taught the lesson by now, even a ******* can become king, and loyalty is key to that. Windows rules the desktop and laptop marketatthe moment. To hell with MS. Good luck being with being purely an enterprise OS and an office supplier. The general consensus seems to be mobile is an essential component to any future. Mobile phones are not phones. Nadella Satya has tried to diversify first using different brands and then by adding various features based on customer preferences. 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). time to get rid all my microsoft service. 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. 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). 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? They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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. Why would I ever take the chance on a new Microsoft product when they could dump it like they have before. At least they have Azure MS waited way too long to get serious about the mobile platform. In addition, Windows on the consumer side needs to aggressively address the pricing issue. I would buy one. @blue steel, I"ve been abandoned with every MS product I've ever bought into: WinCE PDAs and phones, Win 8, 8.1, Zune, Surface RT, both the Band 1 and Band 2, Groove (Spotify sucks on my MS 950 and my Surface Pro 3). When Android phonesand Iphones allow docking to a screen and a keyboard on those devices Microsoft Office might not be the first choice either anymore.Edge browser will not be the first choice on an Android phone or an Iphone either. History does repeat itself, and in the corporate world it is usually because of poor management and lack of vision. 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. The only app I use, besides MS apps, is WhatsApp, if that went I would have to leave as I have family and friends all round the world and they all use WhatsApp. Even though it looks really cool, I have a really hard time being sold on their mixed reality. No Windows/Microsoft mobiles means no OS that makes Microsoft Office relevant. Satya Nadella. we also need to put the blame on AT&T. They will fail at AR/VR etc with the same gusto. The son of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella died Monday. Again all available in people's pockets. I have stayed with Windows phone since the first version came out and now suddenly knowing that MS is abondoning this platform has caused me anguished and lose faith completely in MS. Will get ready to get an android phone (as I am never an apple fan) and also will migrate MS related apps to other platform too. New Delhi: As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's son Zain, who was born with Cerebral Palsy (CP), died on Tuesday (March 1) at the age of 26, this rare congenital disorder that he suffered from, has created buzz.While Cerebral means related to the brain, Palsy means weakness or problems with using the muscles.Hence, Cerebral Palsy is a group of disorders that affect movement and muscle tone or . 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 limits the ability of the firm to build a sustainable competitive advantage. Having bought and ditched Nokia, I think MSFT's strategy was clear. Without that key influx of new devices, Windows 8.xs store is all gussied up with no one to dance with. 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. To be plain, Nadellas new role is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, jobs in technology. Ask Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, what the most pressing problems are that he is working to solve right now and he will give you two answers. Albeit without the use ahem salty language lol. 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 Windows is famous for still being Windows even on a low end cheap as piece of plastic. Nadella is a cloud guy, which is the strong growth future for Microsoft. Thats not to diminish the fact that Windows Phone itself needs all the developer attention it can muster. 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. A better question is how well the larger set of tablet devices running Windows 8.x sell. And so it needs to have an OS that functions in the "consumer" space. It just doesnt have apps. But "enterprises" are made up of employees who are also "consumers." Jason this is one of the BEST articles I've read by you! "I did not get why the world needed the 'fourth' ecosystem in 'Cloud Solutions', unless we changed the rules." For me it's time to move on. But this is still sad to see. I'm much less up on news now because the lack of live tiles which would update automagically thruout the day. (Hint: Thats not likely to involve spinning off Bing, which has an important role to playat the core of other products.). He had cynically deceived loyal fans of W10M. I could use Cortana to set reminders, appointments, whatever on either my phone or PC, and my PC or phonewould remind me. I know because I still have one. 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. Movies and TV will be next. Does Continiuum not fit into the overall "not a phone but a new form factor for mobile computing" gameplan? Other than that, this company is doomed. This is what we should expect from MS? I mean, he could have used the comment section/forums of Windows Central and got all the feedback he needed. That might not happen. Green mushroom for you windows mobile fanatic. Now change the proud tradition, established by your founder Bill. They should have kept it going until they had something else to offer verus, "whelp we're pulling the plug, go give your money to someone else and we hope you'll like whatever we bring out in the future, IF we decide to bring it out." 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. And when there is no mobile for Windows anymore, who needs UWP apps? Managers' fears about idle workers are creating what Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella calls "productivity paranoia," with undesirable resultslike spying on employees. There had to be many outside influences to help with marketing that. However my contract expires in the next few months so I shall just keep my options open and see what happens. Sounds to me like Mocrosoft are not a company to invest in, either by buying their kit or shares. Instead they killed it with their lack of interest. ITS A VERY BIIIIIIIGGGGG MISTAKE!!! Until then we can enjoy the many new Universal apps on our superior Lumia 950 (XL) phones. They wouldnt let Tmobile, Sprint and Verizon have a foothold on the devices. Massive announcements regarding things like this being dribbled out, half way, in Tweets -- and by someone who is not the head of the company? It is good that he has regrets, but too little --. Apple is an amazing system for user interface . How many toy manufactures, production companies (film/tv), IoT, lifestyle (airport/bank/taxi/fast food etc) have an app/game. 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. Never again ! Not even Chinese. Examining the Leadership Style of Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella Quit being so stupid and open All devices to All carriers, Idiots. Without mobile they will dissappear in years to come. You're dreaming. Android and iOS are, right now! As far as MS is concerned, I use Windows and Office on a PC, just like I started out 20 years ago. You can create the best AI on the planet but if it's not on a mobile device and can be used daily then it's not going to be used. There are things I found on my 928 8.1 phone that my 950 W10M still cannot do? Should I take the bait yet again? But as I think, it's not too late, there is still chance of Plan C, which is to fork Android (AOSP) from scratch and have consumers, carriers and OEMS happy because there is no app gap anymore. The only thing I can see is them forking Android apps to work natively on the PC. Prior to that, Nadella was Microsoft EVP of the cloud and enterprise group. last updated August 12, 2020. 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. If UWP really means, for the most part, a wrapper to distribute apps in a low quality store then UWP lacks any real point other than as a curated software respository. Oh yeah, and for that little rat-faced Belifiore, it's outrageous that a company like MS announces it is killing off Windows Mobile in a buried response in a Tweet! My 950XL still works and I like it and the W10M approach. There were other quarters where the % was higher, but sales were lower. What really hurt Windows Phone was empty promises that they lost interest on keeping. But people are dropping their desktops, and why go for a Windows laptop when your mobile devices will play better with a different OS? That was the day I ordered a Pixel 2 and created a G-mail account. MS has basically managed Windows Phone in the same light. Now is their communication process and the way how they approach consumers ok? The truth is that they drop a very good system that is starting to work very well. so in short no surface phone. It build devices to support it's main enterprise google analytics, that is their prime engine for profit. Calm down the "unlock shareholder value" crowd. However, since I only have hints of what they are working on with Windows on ARM and CShell, I have to pick up something else. They could have moved the new Insider fork to just the X3 and kept a core group of loyalists happy while testbeding the tech. WC was giving this guy credit for a lot of Ballmers work! IF there is sufficient timespan, I will set aside funds for the Samsung Note 9 or the Surface Note/Phone. Satya decided to scrap it. As Microsoftenters the Nadella era, its a sprawling company with some tremendously successful divisions and some fundamental challenges. Video Transcript DAN HOWLEY:. Nearly 30 percent, to be precise. Too late. They have money they can waste now. Much of the above is completely theoretical. Nadella is the worst CEO in the history of Microsoft, from a consumer point of view of course. Huh. Mobiles are now the gateway product to tech not enterprise systems. Microsoft's CEO Has the Smartest Social Media Strategy I've Ever Seen Because we all perceive and parse thoughts and feelings differently (cognitive processes and any forms of bias). Shortly after the deal closed in April 2014, he announced the largest layoff in Microsofts history; 18,000 positions were eliminated, the majority of which involved Nokia. VHS v Betamax, MP3 v losless audio, Beats Headphones v any named audio house) just which is the most popular. The dual SIM system is great for when I travel it allows me to separate which contact I call on which SIM. Genius! 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. Microsoft is in for a world of hurt regarding operating systems or app stores going forward. You may want to try. What really killed it though was the repeated reboots of mobile since WP7 where they left everyone in the dust moving forward. MICROSOFT=IBM..Sent from my new note8 **** Windows. Thats Nadellas new problem. He only cares about the income statement today and his bonuses. This is Satya Nadella, Microsoft's new CEO. I fully expect Amazon to buy MS..sooner than later. I'm not worried about the hardware though. Nadella grew up in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and studied electrical engineering at Mangalore University (B.Sc., 1988). The 920,1020 were some of the most talked about sp(smartphone) on themarket during that time. Most mobile phone carriers are bundling ever more minutes and texts in plans because people have moved to data. In fact, without the iPhone Apple would be a struggling little company. For all his many faults, at least Balmer had some inkling of the need to maintain a foothold in the consumer space, even though he did it WRONG by trying to BUY marketshare via the Nokia purchase as opposed to building a MS-owned vertical manufacturing base. I mean for now they are great systems if you use OneDrive and windows 10 pc. Testing RFID blocking cards: Do they work? It wasn't making headway. What isnt clear and may not come to pass is whether there is enough market space for Microsoft to replace its traditional Office revenues completely, and then grow the sum. I'm a former java developer who has been swayed towards UWP and to "one software works on all devices" paradigm. Now, even if the next big thing coming from Microsoft will be awesome, gorgeous, stellar everybody will ask themselves: "Is this thing going to last at least for 2 years? I lost "faith" in Microsoft when they killed the Band. All rights reserved. Microsoft's annual stockholders meeting, as I recall is November 29, 2017 - 49 days from today - why not speak with a LOUD GLOBAL VOICE! So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. I don't see a long term future even for windows if this idea fails. The point is, Microsoft was WAY behind. It's that re-affirmed bias that drives most developers to target the platform with a larger base group. The idea of AI, Mixed Reality, cloud computing, bodes very well for the companies who have mobile, pocket sized devices to leverage.
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