If I ever make the switch to another phone, I will share that, but I'm one tough customer to get to change over from something I bought for a reason and I don't see that reason in another product. No, but the folks who drive them sure do like the ride. The Microsoft CEO ranks at No. 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. They should have just purchasedParallels and created a Parallels for windows phone that runs ios and android apps and we would not even be having this conversation. At this point, you could say Microsoft is autistic from time to time. If the PC market sees continued weakness akin to what happened in 2013, PC unit volume could decline until key partner OEMs bow out. As a famous man once said, "the evidence is incontravertible." Again all available in people's pockets. HoloLens is cool and all but its not in consumers hands. I feel betrayed and very disappointed. we also need to put the blame on AT&T. If Microsoft cedes ground to Amazon, or more precisely fails to grow its share of this market, it could harm its ability to promote its own software products, not to mention see a key new revenue source stagnate. I'm done with MS. Enterprise customers experience real pain every day thanks to Microsofts unbelievably complex licensing rules, which are practically sadistic. Do you know what 8.1 brought for me? It's very easy to ignore Windows UWP, since Microsoft itselfs it not doing much UWP apps. I am going with Nokia 8 next year. Everyone was writing about the death of Windows Phone/Mobile, whilst fans were sticking up for it, and Microsoft simply ignored anything about it. 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. 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 Students and even teachers have chromebooks, the developers once so important for Microsoft have fled already and are concentrating on iOS/Android/webapps where the users are. I tell you. Satya seems to have loyalty issues, with users, with developers and with Microsoft former employees. 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. Link to the interview please. Now given the fact that the future of computing for the masses is mobile I do not see Microsoft dropping that at all but rather trying to change the approach to mobile for the next generation of computing. 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 is hard to believe but we are almost there. 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. The only apparent certainty at this point is that Nadella cares ONLY about Microsoft's cloud services, and Andriod & iOS apps. Windows and MD is in serious trouble because he left the only market that matters. Look at Corvette. And you know what two years back they seemed to really start to look cool. Satya was just the guy that had to make the decision to pull the plug, but WP had been brain dead for a while already. But there are certainly opportunities to paint a brighter line between the two sides of the house than weve seen so far. Me too. Anyway, Jason, I enjoy your articles, quixotic as they are at times :). I'm totally agree..
Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset SWOT Analysis No big deal. You'll likely follow phone news less and less. And theres progress in the cloud as well.
6 Satya Nadella Quotes to Inspire Business Leaders Growing up as a young adult, all my home computer were Windows, 98- W10. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received just below $55 million worth of compensation in 2022. 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.
What businesses can learn from Satya Nadella's transformation of Plus if they do come back withthe new OSI hope they don't get rid of the LIVE Tiles, but they need to have a setting forjust Icons for those people who do not likeLive Tiles. That was the day I ordered a Pixel 2 and created a G-mail account. I understand why people weren't happy with Ballmer. HP must have been working with BIG HP ENTERPRISE customers and BIG HP partners and could have "really bridged the gap"!!! And that's not even addressing the recent past - remember that time you upgraded your Windows phone OS only to find that it didn't support streaming any of your videos from the Movies and TV store? In my opinion, cancelling phones was bad decision which will lead to the downfall of MS. It isn't the guy digging for gold who gets rich, but rather the guy that sells the shovel. It wasn't as straightforward as "keep mobile alive at the cost of other projects" or "killing mobile is the only way to start working in new ideas" The biggest OS company in the world, who promised Windows on any form of device -- and yet it gives up on phones and smartwatches? So, you know, keep the Surface division growing at triple digit percentages for the next few years. The article and lots of the comment said WP fail because lack of dev/app, people must realize W10 also use the same dam UWP. And he did come in at the end of it. Get an AMERICAN back in the job and DEPORT Satya. The economy remains fragile. Enough People would buy them for Microsoft take the time to make amd market them. This brings us to: A huge chunk of the PC market remains on Windows XP. re-add all the phones that could run the creators update to the feature 2 branch or red stone branch. People are missing a key point. I left Windows Phone with the cancellation of the McLaren for Android. Most people in the US don't understand the pull of Nokia as brand. A lack of mobile has meant that it has no "non-tech" information feeding in to change help its narrative. Sad times. I'm a full-time user of OneNote, One Drive, and Outlook. But well meant I change to LG V30, or S8 plus or note 8, but in this moment I cancel office 365, cancel groove, in the future cancel Xbox live, ea access , I cant belive, now I selling my Surface pro 3 to, my angry is to extreme I know, but I'm very angry. Android and iOS are, right now! Frankly, he does not understand the "Consumer Space" AT ALL (at least now he admits it.) Not all at once but steadily. How likely are you to continue to believe and trust the Microsoft ecosystem"? Please don't waste my time anymore with these kind of articles. MS has very deliberately started funneling their fans to other platforms this past week and it's very upsetting because I truly love and enjoy Windows Mobile and have used a variation of it for the past 10+ years. All about the same. Tech billionaire Satya Nadella 's recent conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) software proves the future ahead looks bright. My step sister's husband works for Microsoft, and he was stunned to hear I still owned a WP! According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston in Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset study there are enough evidences that with such a high quality of products and services, Nadella Satya can compete with other global players in international market. Im not going to pretend that I have enough insight or experience to tell Satya Nadella how to run Microsoft. Some people say Windows Mobile / Phone was murdered, and my thought is that it wasn't, there were projects like Astoria and iOS Bridge which didn't had enough resources and marketing and didn't got attention in the Microsoft company as top priorities. The work that goes into Windows and Office ends up in both the enterprise and consumer/soho versions of those two products. 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. I wouldn't expect immediategrowth and a great spurt of Windows fans coming back, but if they made a device (whether it looked like a phone or not), showed actual commitment behind it, and marketed the death out of it by showcasing its many features via various media mediums, change is possible. Yet MS still makes the industry standard enterprise software. Easy: Nadella must be replaced ASAP before Microsoft becomes the new IBM Xerox, Atari, Nintendo, etc No company is to big to disappear what he means is that MSFT will eventually only cater to enterprise and hide behind the iron curtain. But CEO Satya Nadella shared his plan for how. People hanging about in a burning house while walls fell down around them and ash filled their lungs, smh. Should have appointed a visionary instead. You don't even have to say "hey Cortana", so, there's that. Europe is a 500 million people big market so I don't think that's a small market at all. Despite more than doubling its revenue in the period, Surface lost tens of million of dollars in the past quarter. After all that there's a board shake up and we get Apotheker as head. 1. It's a shame. He oversees Microsoft's computer software and hardware products, including Windows, Xbox, Surface, Office 365, and Bing. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. They dabbled in PCs for a few years, but then got out. Which they were supposed to use to build the best mobile platform. How much have you or your company invested in Microsoft "mobile" over the last 5 years? They simply do not respond to touch. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. 4 on the overall list with a yearly compensation of $84,308,755. According to global executive survey done by Harvard Business Review & Brightline Initiative Only 20% of the strategic targets set by organizations are realized. Everyone was excited to see real hardware matched to the os. The key difference is that the former is a reputation of perpetually stunted progress, vs a reputation of continuous progress. So I have to bring an extra MP3 player when traing next year? 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. I thought that they knew that mobile is a key sector that they need to conquer by any means. Never again ! I connect back and forth between my personal SIM and my work / travel SIM without compromising my security. You killed the original middle ground, you numbnut. Your phone would become a Windows Pocket PC running UWP apps with the ability to make phone calls. It's about new management practices and . 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.