The idea Microsoft may have folded now only to bring out something better in future has merit. - Developments in Artificial Intelligence Nadella Satya can use developments in artificial intelligence to better predict consumer demand, cater to niche segments, and make better recommendation engines. 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. What "unlock shareholder. "In the future, technologies like AI, mixed reality and quantum computing will advance in . While such a device MIGHT appeal to business, no consumer is interested in running Win32 stuff on an 8 touch screen. Hey Jason, thanks for this article. I don't mean this to sound hyperbole, but I'm beginning to think in 10 years or so, MS will be IBM. Why? This whole "cloud first or nothing" push will eventually backfire and they will float into abyss. The carriers - at least in America - never supported the OS as they did Apple or Samsung after 7.0 failed to fly. @JaimitoFrog.Yeahthats the ticketMS would be bankrupt in 6 months. That's why I am sure Nadella is not making a "mistake" in his mind. Satya Nadella and his leadership team impressively executed the significant cultural change efforts. A low cost, touch device, similar to the Surface. Microsoft would have never appointed a tunnel vision IT person Stay as the President. 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. In the course of my day I shall speak to clients. Kinda worrying the CEO doesn't get that. I must say I have enjoyed using windows phone but now it is causing a huge disappointment and frustration. You killed the original middle ground, you numbnut. He learned the importance of daily gratitude from Michael Gervais and considers it . Sad times. It's just a phone people, maybe leave cancer, autism, spousal abuse out of the commentary? However, there are a considerable number of things missing in Android as a basic function that Windows Mobile had built in for years. Have already made the switch and though I miss windows phone, I have to say I'm much happier cause everything works. Have a full and frank exchange of ideas in the board room. Like DT is running MS. All they need is a small but powerful tablet in the size of a phone with cellular but do not market it as a phone. If people see the REALLY low cost alternative that gets them in the touch game, with the responsiveness of their smartphone, and a keyboard to flip over when they need it, a little marketing could go a long way for a device such as this. Besides it offers some features copied in the latest iPhone x. And finally, it has been an assumption that Nadella will have full avail of Microsofts cadre of executive vice presidents. Nadella's greatest weakness may be his lack of consumer market experience. Then they get all defensive when the backlash is real. Ready??? Their image is so strong that people want it blindly and make no mistake it will come truth in years to come (20 perhaps). No mobile phone/mobile device means you are OUT in the future of big data and office work as the tect world moves on. The most distructive piece of their abandoning product lines is the internal piece. This would not be Changing The Game. 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. It doesn't pass the Star Trek Tech test: There's gazillions of handheld devices in the Star Trek universe. blackberry 10 had native android runtime. Does anyone knows the name of the weed he smokes? 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). I am PISSED. But it seems there arethose that just can't get engaged with it. Android at the time was basically percieved as a touch version of symbian. It isn't the guy digging for gold who gets rich, but rather the guy that sells the shovel. Many of us are tired of being abused by a company that used us then left us hanging high and dry. I still love my now essentially abandoned 950XL. In hindsight, I'm convinced it was doomed from the beginning. Time to focus, man. It is a slow and sure death, and current management will leave the mess to their replacements. Lets take a moment instead to focus on what could go wrong for the new CEO. I wish this information had been available a couple of weeks ago. For me it's time to move on. Satya seems to have loyalty issues, with users, with developers and with Microsoft former employees. On their mobiles. Like my Apple Watch, as a wearable, an iPad for a tablet experience (yes, I own a Surface Pro 4, but that's not a tablet-like experience for me) or switching to Apple Music because Groove wouldn't have albums available, when released (all to see them cancel the service out right). Boy do I look like a fool now! Theres obvious resistance from customers who prefer the control of "owning" local installations even when their software goes hopelessly out of date and becomes a security nightmare. Google assitant works pretty flawlessly responding to "OK google", unlike the inconsistentcy of "hey cortana" on my Idol. Contacts (People), email, calendar etc are all tied to MSFT ecosystem and the mobile thread is Windows Phone. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received just below $55 million worth of compensation in 2022. In the scenario where the mobile is the Personal Computer it is much more important than building a laptop, an ultra mobile PC, a PC anything in fact. Growing up as a young adult, all my home computer were Windows, 98- W10. Nah he is just paving the way of killing "the shiny new thing" in a few months to a year, again citing no developer interest. I will never understand how a software GIANT can be so damn bad as software. Abandoning the consumer space is insane. Recent statements made by high executives confirm the rumors were true. 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. He joined Microsoft in 1992 and became CEO of the company in 2014. @blue steel, I say, it's never too late for Microsoft to put out a device and market it, as they should have been doing with previous devices, and it taking off. All CTO, CIO, IT Directors, etc. The iphone X's facial ID has nothing to do with 950's retina scan, they have two different techs, and it's large screen was not copied from a Lumia 950XL or any lumia :)) how pathetic can you be?? It seems you have the guts to take on things others don't. Hopefully, MS will abandon mobile and consumers completely instead of promising falsehoods and wasting the hard earned cash of consumers! And completely abandoning the consumer market, going for business only. Both Google and Apple have AR that people can use right now in their pockets! The high brass at MSFT has to be replaced. Andoroid's dominance as the most prevalent OS on the market was built on that, and the "App Gap" grew as a result of that. With the former, you'd have a stronger infrastructure but higher lead time. (Like gmail instead of outlook mail and calendar). Now, we're having to move on. I know it's nothing like an apology or anything like that but it at least helps to feel that our voices ate being heard. It seems he does not consider the consequences and we consumers are the ones paying the price. - Strong Balance Sheet and Financial Statement of Nadella Satya can help it to invest in new and diverse projects that can further diversify the revenue stream and increase Return on Sales (RoS) & other metrics. will consider using VM now. In effect it has contributed to its own entropy. - 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. " Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. Very true. Admitting apparently isn't keeping him from doing over and over again. It remains to be seen just how high a price Microsoft pays for these series of mobile missteps. 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. If the goal is a unified platform and therefore only on OS shared by all devices, then developers need not develop for "mobile." quote from 2 years ago: " If anything, one big mistake we made in our past was to think of the PC as the hub for everything for all time to come," Nadella hprbl/ You'll have a complete phone with you. I truly love technology and I keep up with the news here because I like it so much. Maybe if he'd actually listen to the Windows fans, this could have been avoided. If this trend keeps up, there will be little to no need for our consultants to even know Microsoft products. I cancelled my xbox one X preorder..Good Job Microsoft. Windows is famous for still being Windows even on a low end cheap as piece of plastic. Most of us have probably embraced the new ideas at the Build pep rallys 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. Threats are macro environment factors and developments that can derail business model of Nadella Satya. It is written by Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston and deals with topics in areas such as Organizational Development Leadership, Organizational culture Not much progress for all your efforts! 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. Even though it looks really cool, I have a really hard time being sold on their mixed reality. This is sucky. He's a first grade FOOL. The only thing wrong with Windows Mobile was that MS did not commit to developing the OS and decided that MS did not need the consumers anymore. You'll likely follow phone news less and less. 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. On a MacBook, I like the simplicity of garageband. And it looks to me like a huge mistake. The high brass at MSFT has to be replaced. So he's admitting that he's basically screwed the entire company with his boneheaded decisions that we all saw happening before our eyes. MS can do the world a favor and leave the consumer market altogether. This has had to have had a big impact on Window 10 and its mobile ambitions. 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. I already sell my HP elite x3, but I still using windows phone 10 with my ex Lumia 930. Something built on Java that would be extremely open wait. I'm totally agree.. If people aren't using Microsoft in their personal lives, it won't even enter their heads to use it in their commercial lives. However, that was during a quarter in which Microsoft spent heavily on advertising for the two new devices it had just launched. I stand by that. Now, No ******* thing. Do you need one? A target for occasionally interesting apps, sure, but an encompassing platform for Microsoft to bet their future on, in the belief it will be indispensible for users - nope. I will never ever buy a Microsoft product again. Nadella IS committed to Windows Mobile - er - Windows ON mobile. 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. DO NOT bring back gates. Windroid [andromeda OS for consumers]. I moved to Android after sitting tight with Windows Phone/Mobile through the 920, 930 and 950XL being pulled along solely by promises of "things to come". The faster release tempo is a good thing for consumers, but makes IT pros nervous. Ballmer would have doubled down on the Nokia purchase and pushed Windows phone hard and all of the other developments could have kept developers on board and continued its slow, steady growth. Nadella had to get that message or they will relegated to be the next IBM as others have said. You don't even have to say "hey Cortana", so, there's that. You know what they say. At this point, you could say Microsoft is autistic from time to time. I think Windows 10 as OS should be friendly with all types of nature. Perhaps if Microsoft developed more apps that worked more like the windows version which has tabs directly linking to NSN, Office Online and Outlook.com it would relieve some of the loss of Windows phones. There has been a presumption that XP users would make the switch. 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! I will keep my Lumia 950 XL until it goes belly up. He had cynically deceived loyal fans of W10M. I know there were major issues, but these little things improve daily life of the end user And that's what matters. I can only remember Windows Mobile 7.5/8 being so stable that I'd go months without a reboot. 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. Decided to Not buy an Xbox. Its one thing to drop the ball continuously, its another to refocus on Enterprise and the few customers they have with high end hardware and IoT. Windows Phone just worked, but with each release they took away more and more features and broke other ones. They only barely made double digits in a handful of places on cheap phones. I'm worried about the state of the software. I think that a key weakness that is rarely discussed . Believe me when I tell you that windows phone had always been a beta test. MS has screwed every single fan over and didn't even try lube. Thank you for speaking the truth about Ballmer & Satya pushing things Ballmer already implemented or on his product roadmap. Edge is complete rubbish, Bing doesn't compare to Google for search. Considering phones are what will power VR/AR, especially as they get more and more powerful, the desktop is not where mixed reality will reside in the long term, so Microsoft has set itself up for failure there as well. the reason i stick with windows 10 only because of photoshop. I just got my android phone and my subscription to WPS office. 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.. That comment deserves an up vote. Mobile is small?? Google and Apple are committed and welcome talent. - Changing Technology Landscape Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence boom is transforming the technology landscape that Nadella Satya operates in. My 950XL still works and I like it and the W10M approach. This an olive branch for the stalwarts who have been left frustrated and burnt. If you are not making a mobile device then you are not creating the ecosystem for your services. Was that a marketing ploy also? 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. Satya Nadella said reading a diary entry from his mom reminded him what leadership is really about. Apple gets it, Google gets it, Adobe gets it, and Amazon gets it; but Microsoft misses it. Never again ! I love how everyone seems to think Google and apple can conquer every market. MBA & EMBA programs. With the way they treated windows mobile and developers, it is going to be a real problem when (or if) they actually release this "andromeda" thing. The best advice for Microsoft is to release a surface phone that does not look like a phone but is the ultimate device. the next shiny object they are loseing attention span with is continuum I'm sure apple and google are going o thrive wit it And with out a phone your AI is not going to be in too many peoples hands . As people carry the more and more powerful smart phones in their hands and as they wil replace the common office computer this WILL means big trouble for Microsoft in the future. My view is Microsoft have missed the next wave because the platform they have is peripheral to the next wave. 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. Although the loss of Groove Music Pass hurts. Satya Nadella, Buddhism and Modern Leadership. When MS released Windows 8 (desktop) and WP 8. Microsoft supporter. Unfortunately Microsoft's lack of focus and inability to market thier own product made this deal seem like a precieved desparate move instead of taking full adavntage of this opprtunity. I suspect it will be announced at the right time (not a second earlier) and it will definitely be oriented at corporate use and prosumers. Ive done most of the leg work already on what impact Nokia could have on Microsofts earnings, and it looked slight. That doesnt appear to be the case. I have been Microsoft everything since the DOS days, not anymore. Opportunities are macro environment factors and developments that Nadella Satya can leverage either to consolidate existing market position or use them for further expansion. Even the camera on the Nokia 6 is really good, maybe a few issues in low light. Windows 8.x fails to garner significant tablet market share, despite updates. Also, while Nadella is generally considered to be well-liked internally, he can hardly be universally popular. At this rate, it's going to be cloud only as the consumer market dries up to nothing. 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.

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