Sorry to tell him, to late. No big deal. PC market is diminishing; tablet market is diminishing - Increasing bargaining power of buyers Over the years the bargaining power of customers of Nadella Satya has increased significantly that is putting downward pressure on prices. My, how time flies. What software do you use for music recording? My phone and PC no longer communicate the way they used to. Kinda worrying the CEO doesn't get that. According to Satya Nadella, a key attribute of a leader is to step into a situation where the future is uncertain and create clarity for the business and the people. It's now over, and they will suffer the market consequences for many years to come. They make great products and then abandon the users who buy them. The notion that it wasn't making headway is just a lie. Thats not to diminish the fact that Windows Phone itself needs all the developer attention it can muster. Just once. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and . That just doesn't look true to me - WP had significant market share and was growing for several years. Europe is a 500 million people big market so I don't think that's a small market at all. What is he planning to do to correct this? The most distructive piece of their abandoning product lines is the internal piece. He will destroy MS. Microsoft has been strident in the past in stating that it intends to have strong margins on the Surface line of products. As much as he had to pull the plug on Balmer's bad decisions. Market share just did not justify the expenditure for developers. Mobile is not the biggest software market in the world. Also I hope it is clear that MS has moved on from Mobile focus they now want to catch up with the supposedly next big thing. However, I also now have other devices I thought I'd look to MS to full fill. Most infrastructure people do not get transitional stages or phases. The thing that frustrates me the most about this is how the company was so secretive about its vision for Windows on phones; or lack thereof. 8 years? Those are gentle, highly sanitized code words, of course. Microsoft would then always continue developing for iOS and Android, but the first party app as a matter of example, always would provide the best experience on the Windows based devices that also ran APK binaries. Integrate with it's huge number of mobiles and one day, the mobile OS will become the business OS. No Windows/Microsoft mobiles means no OS that makes Microsoft Office relevant. " Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. It is simple and easy to interact with but Apple as whole interacts with very few things outside its own verse. In this (WinPhone) case, hitting refresh is a good thing imo. I think we will see the opposite now that mobile is king. It's all good in their bank account for now. Probably over the years, enough for a decent car!! ButI would prefer not to (always) support the Apple fan-club thing or Google's super focus on ads and selling private data. As developers we embrace new technologies, and most of us have spent much money and many hours learning it. I have been a windows mobile / phone user for a many years. They talk vaguely about "a new class of device" and demonstrate technologies that will underpin in (the demos of WoA on a SD830 running full windows), but I think they are too afraid of being "scooped" to give us a peek behind the curtain and that makes people think there isn't anything there. Gates is pulling his strings now. In 1988, Satya completed his bachelor's degree at Manipal Institute in electronic engineering. I'm guessing that the Xbox is next on the chopping block, and I would be shocked if MS releases another console after the One X. Nadella's management decisions are definitely defensible - but I still think a mistake. Apple has tried for decades to crack Enterprise and their desktop share hasn't moved. For example, more will start use google docs and storage (due to integration with phone etc.) Hopefully, MS will abandon mobile and consumers completely instead of promising falsehoods and wasting the hard earned cash of consumers! In his own words, he needed to change the rules of the game. There were other quarters where the % was higher, but sales were lower. We can all appreciate that thirst for knowledge. 18 Other Top Book Recommends From Satya Nadella. I was all in on Microsoft's services and hardware, by not providing me a mobile option they have lost me as a user. Calm down the "unlock shareholder value" crowd. By 1999 he had been named vice president of the Microsoft bCentral small-business service, and two years later he became corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions. hits the nail on the head. I could use Cortana to set reminders, appointments, whatever on either my phone or PC, and my PC or phonewould remind me. Me too. I highly doubt there were only 20 mil users seeing as I personally know loads who has bought into the Windows ecosystem with no input from me or someone like me. 8. Well said, Jason, well said. I truly love technology and I keep up with the news here because I like it so much. 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. I also own Suface products, and I am very pleased with the devices however I won't buy anymore unless I see that MS is going to support the sytems and not leave me hanging in the cold. W10/S/ARM will allcome up short becausethewhole damCORE idea depends on UWP to move forward. The work that goes into Windows and Office ends up in both the enterprise and consumer/soho versions of those two products. All business end-users are consumers. There have been leaks of Microsoft dual screen MINI TABLETS. Facebook, Messenger, Line (in Taiwan, Japan), up coming iTunes, Netflix, Keeper, Instagram, TamperMonkey, Spotify, 8zip, etc. Once, IBM was known for their computers, but then they changed focus from the individual to the corporation. The fact that it was hard enough to get a 920 din't help. Poor decision in the long run, but what do these corporate heads care? The day my Windows 10 phone stops working I will switch both my phone and laptop to Apple with no looking back. The problem is that Microsoft earn money on servers and support for Windows 10 pc. I think MS should learn from google and apple. How can MS kill its own future? On their mobiles. MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY! And then they decide to abandon it because they never had the vision of a competeing third ecosystem. So the Windows 8.x we have for mobile today is likely the Windows 8.x for mobile we are going to have for some time. The only apparent certainty at this point is that Nadella cares ONLY about Microsoft's cloud services, and Andriod & iOS apps. you could install almost any android app you need ,even the google store. I understand your frustration but I do not agree to your comment people will not return. Where am I going in the future? Walk back the decision while you still can. I hope Nadella has jotted down a note to himself: Do not attempt to re-create Ballmer developers video. Remove that potential of growth and you lose your major developer incentive. Windows Phone was great for a small amount of time but it failed all in all. He called a a rejected platform and yet at 1 point, there were as many windows phone users as there are Mac users. I'm saying if you believe otherwise, you're being driven by something other than statistical probability. - Project Management is too focused on internal delivery rather than considering all the interests of external stakeholders. When I had that thought I realised just how annoyed I am with Microsoft. Here in the UK, Aviva uses an app to do just that, so safer drivers have lower insurance premiums. Very true. Going to business users was literally following Blackberry to its grave. MS wake up!!! I'm not saying developers won't embrace UWP or that Microsoft will cast aside AR within two years of taking your $500. In 2016 Nadella oversaw the acquisition of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking Web site. Wasted my 20 years loyalty. But so is the future. They should have kept alive the Windows 10 Mobile until they will be releasing the next big thing. It really is sad that Nadella were so short sighted. and i knew then, it was the death of Mobile and there was no way in hell MS was going to recover from this. Never the less it's not to late, Microsoft has to formally announce on a massive stage, their mea culpa for abandoning consumers and how they will work to repair all the bridges they burnt. Yes it was a collosal failure to abandon those loyal to the platform. While such a device MIGHT appeal to business, no consumer is interested in running Win32 stuff on an 8 touch screen. it seems to me that not only does the company have contempt for users, it can no longer write programmes that work with its own operating syustem. Most of us have probably embraced the new ideas at the Build pep rallies only to find out 24 months later that it was nothing more than an infomercial using many of us as the foot soldiers for the revenue stream. And i have owned an 830 and then a 950xl since Not true. Just how much will Satya Nadella get paid? 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. when Google and Apple are successfully marketing their own products? And here we are again. They think they cannot lose the enterprise space, but IBM thought that about OS/2. noun Instead of building bridges to the future, MIcrosoft has burned many. Instead it will just make them more comfortable with iOS or Android since they can get the best of both worlds. I know there were major issues, but these little things improve daily life of the end user And that's what matters. And then they decided to destroy it all. When you fail to tell the truth to your employees the organization begins to corrode from the inside. It's around 500 million now. So is leaving some software out from,10 like gestures beta lol. Very cheap, but fun to use! Despite more than doubling its revenue in the period, Surface lost tens of million of dollars in the past quarter. HOWEVER, If the shift towards business grows and windows turns into a business only OS, with lack of cool features for producing, photos, videos etc, I am going to have to go to apple. Ready??? Hi Bai, that's a valid point. I am confident they have something truly amazing in the pipeline (presumably 2019). EU was a good market for Windows phones, so they should have used this opportunity to build and improve this OS. I don't see AR/VR/MR/whateverR becoming much of a universal platform. That sh*t just doesn't add up. Threats are macro environment factors and developments that can derail business model of Nadella Satya. Also, while Nadella is generally considered to be well-liked internally, he can hardly be universally popular. Congratulations, you got lucky. That is cured with royalties or being good at releasing bug free OSes and apps, Ah, downvoted for pointing out the truth, Android apps did nothing but hasten the demise of BB10. And Joe B, I think there was one thing you missed while you were trying everything to incent developers: committing to the platform and sticking with it. Great person.not a great person to push microsoft forward. It's just business. Zero trust in that company anymore, zero. What is taking shape now is that consumers are finally catching on that Microsoft within a short period of time gives up on hardware,for example Zune, Windows RT, Micosoft Band, and now Windows Phone. In fact, I would say Nadella and the Board are collectively insane. Nadella is a strong CEO pick, but his job will be industrial strength. They need to name and market it under a different moniker!!!! MS can do the world a favor and leave the consumer market altogether. Recommendations to Nadella. Which they were supposed to use to build the best mobile platform. With MSFT once spearheading this path it has let many of us to a cul-de-sac. They have burned too many bridges and lost too much trust. HP must have been working with BIG HP ENTERPRISE customers and BIG HP partners and could have "really bridged the gap"!!! I always changed phone carriers just to get my hands on the latest Windows Phone. No they didn't So, if you can't re-model or create a market, you have to figure out how to survive in the market(s) that exist and that is what Nadella has done. Microsoft's handling of mobile will be studied in B-School in the future alongside case studies of Atari.. Its not too late, Satya has made mistakes, but he did launched Nokia X but didn't put enough resources and marketing campaign so that Android app developers like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat could see that their apps could finally run on a Microsoft product. It is Satya's defeatism and lack of vision and conviction that led to this. Xbox will be spun off as a self governed entity and Windows/Office is already bordering on non relevant seeing as most people today, and I'm talking about real people, not you or me, get along just fine with an iPad or Android tablet. Window phone was dead 2 years ago when it wasn't making enough profit for too long. 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. There are many companies in the world that sell software for more than 20 billion dollars (including Microsoft). Since the launch of Windows 10 I thought the good times for Microsoft were about to come, and I increased my faith with the idea of a promised Universal Windows Platform running on every device, including smartphones. There has been a presumption that XP users would make the switch. The point is, Microsoft was WAY behind. So I have to bring an extra MP3 player when traing next year? This includes a base salary of $918,917, along with $3,600,000 in cash bonus and $12,729 in perquisites. But developers need to be seriously wooed back to the Windows platform. From this armchair analyst's view, the whole thing failed simply because Satya wanted it to. 96% of his compensation was performance-based, up from 71%. Why even would they drop the already established product? It is sticking to the same game that Microsoft already lost. I cannot come to purchase another mac. Probably until battery run out. I ser they are lagging behind at least 12 months on the back log, despite the current rs3 and 4 roadmap. And so it needs to have an OS that functions in the "consumer" space. Im not going to pretend that I have enough insight or experience to tell Satya Nadella how to run Microsoft. Does anyone knows the name of the weed he smokes? 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. WP7 was a mediocre crap, lacking copy/paste, BT file transfers, no file manager, mediocre email experience, PC sync was a mess especially for exchange stuff. Microsoft is still pulling its re-org together at the same time it is changing its business model. Right now the average Joe might see AI as Siri, Google now, and Alexa. I feel your pain! OEM's wisely took the choice of the free OS over a paid one. Microsoft was churning maybe 20 million actual users. If people start to use other software than Microsoft Office on those Android phones and Iphones then well then Microsoft is actually tottally irrelevant on the smartphones and hence really out of the bit data business in the smart phone business. As you rightly point out, Jason, "eradicating" Windows phones and their ngegative perception was paramount to "hitting refresh". 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. The good thing about UWP is they work on any windows OS (see 1.5 billion win10 users on pc) if a new pocket pc can capture some of the smartphone market. Mobile is small?? The few million people who owned windows phones I guarantee were Microsoft's biggest fans. Its the substance abuse of choice for the 23rd/24th etc centuries. Wiith The HP Elite x3 smart phone going to be discontinued and the Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950xl gone what does Microsoft have nothing something is better than nothing. He has not changed his mind of that, just regretting that he did not pay closer attention to the phone base. Everything MS tries ends in failure.. 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). As people starts to use Android and Iphones Microsoft office is not the only choice their. 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. But they didn't do that. On 16th June 2021, Nadella has been further appointed as the Executive Chairman of Microsoft, succeeding John W. Thompson. I understand why they pulled out. The Universal Windows App system would be a great method for providing that frredom of choice if security is your primary concern then choose less apps and greater security choices. People were hating SO hard on windows 8, but I could see where they are Going with it (in the future) and I was super excited. 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. 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. You lose your ability to retain talent or to recruit the best talent when futures are uncertain. That was the most stupid decision except for leaving the market. But "enterprises" are made up of employees who are also "consumers." I have 2 Windows Mobiles and I am still eyeing for an HP Elite X3. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella is an example. It be a hobby you grew out of because u won't have a phone you need to babysit all the time like window mobile 10. I stand by that. I have not commented on an article here in such a long time! MSFT seems to be telegraphing very clearly that they feel Windows will be dead in less than 10 years and they are moving the company in the direction to ensure survival in a post-Windows world. In my experience because too many didn't even realise it existed due to a total lack of marketing. That flips and Nadella has a new problem on his hands. He has some good leadership skills, as he managed to increase Microsoft's profitability by 268% since taking over. They embraced the browser market and extended it with special html handling. 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. - Increasing Standardization Nadella Satya can leverage this trend to reduce the number of offerings in the market and focus the marketing efforts on only the most successful products. How many of those 100 million Windows phones are still in use? I am still using one drive, one note and outlook. Google and Apple are committed and welcome talent. Enterprise customers will also begin to leave (check out municipalities who bet on MSFT mobile) as they seek integrated solutions. - High Margins Nadella Satya charges a premium compare to its competitors. Huh. I think you only make money if you are number 1 so hence the Spotify alliance. So Nutella just let down windows phone to focus on developping a bunch of Skype bots that nobody talk with? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received just below $55 million worth of compensation in 2022. He and his team are guiding one the world's most significant high-tech companies. Yeah, this will hurt them. 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. Now all you do is to carve "Microsoft was here" in someone else's tree. 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.

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