I will watch and see! Yeah, it's called hundred dollar bills. Sure, there's the Holodeck, but that's a plot device and not an actual envisioning of "how stuff gets done." - Credit Binge post 2008 Recession Easy access to credit can be over any time, so Nadella Satya should focus on reducing its dependence on debt to expand. Pretty logic to me. Since Satya became CEO, it has grown nine times to a valuation of $2.5 trillion, making Microsoft one of the world's two most valuable companies. And although it makes perfect sense, that move wont be easy. @PATCHERD, There are a bunch of fanboys running around in the dark trying to find the door right now! 3. 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. He has some good leadership skills, as he managed to increase Microsoft's profitability by 268% since taking over. Microsoft's CEO wrote for Fast Company about a quote from philosopher Sren Kierkegaard that . It seems he does not consider the consequences and we consumers are the ones paying the price. While such a device MIGHT appeal to business, no consumer is interested in running Win32 stuff on an 8 touch screen. I think the only Mobile device Microsoft could sell to the public would be a "Surface" 7 to8 inch Mini Tablet with acell phone in it's caseRunning Windows 10 on ARM withC Shell and "Continuum"such a device would run full Win32 Desktop PC programs. (Like gmail instead of outlook mail and calendar). Comments . But I also use Ableton Live 9 and I tried Reaper software too. Some people say that Microsoft is interested in Enterprise, but I think that is questionable, because of their recent behaviors like leaving HP high & dry with the Elite X3 program, and leaving 35,000 "Enterprise" handsets at NYPD high & dry This let users make either Apple or Google that strong hold in their needed mobile lives which in turn dug a whole way too deep for MS to get out of. Good article Jason. 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. I had two Lumia 822's, two 928's(me and my girlfriend, who loved her 928 btw) an Icon and now a 735. According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston , this can reduce the potential of success of Nadella Satya in the international market. My, how time flies. Believe me when I tell you that windows phone had always been a beta test. The announcement of the end of Groove on 12/31 together with a non-working Spotify app on my phone was the final straw for me. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella is an example. If only HP had its own mobile platform. On 16th June 2021, Nadella has been further appointed as the Executive Chairman of Microsoft, succeeding John W. Thompson. I will never trust Microsoft again in the mobile area. So I have to bring an extra MP3 player when traing next year? They dominate in the iPhone That is it. All CTO, CIO, IT Directors, etc. Would be nice if the people that bought 950 or 950 XLs could get some kind of compensation or at least an apology. The best advice for Microsoft is to release a surface phone that does not look like a phone but is the ultimate device. Nadella should admit he made a mistake and walk back the decision to sacrifice not only Windows Phone, but all the folks who love it. Satya Nadella replaced billionaire Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO in 2014. The promise of one core finally, seemless intergaion with a mobile experience that should have been prefferable on this platform for at least first party apps along with developer interest of intergrating the same code across multiple platforms. They are going SMALLER. Enterprise customers will also begin to leave (check out municipalities who bet on MSFT mobile) as they seek integrated solutions. I know there were major issues, but these little things improve daily life of the end user And that's what matters. Im not going to pretend that I have enough insight or experience to tell Satya Nadella how to run Microsoft. "First, I believe that, at its most powerful, technology can be a force for good in the world," he says. This brings us to: A huge chunk of the PC market remains on Windows XP. What a joke. This lack of experience could be a detriment as Microsoft seeks to compete more directly with Apple and Google. How long before Movies and TV go? If you go back and look though, I was a HUGE MS/ Windows Mobile supporter. People are missing a key point. That's all MS can do now anyways. That doesnt appear to be the case. It's not that Nadella lacks an ego, and the robust financial results his company has racked up give him undeniable bragging rights. Thats not to diminish the fact that Windows Phone itself needs all the developer attention it can muster. They had huge volume of insiders giving them feedback for free. ITS A VERY BIIIIIIIGGGGG MISTAKE!!! As developers we embrace new technologies, and most of us have spent much money and many hours learning it. No vision equals no company. I left Windows Phone with the cancellation of the McLaren for Android. Who will buy MS product except company who use Office and cloud. So, give them something they are familiar with but with a settingoption where they could useeither Live Tiles or Icons. In addition, HP footed the bill and GOT the HP Elite x3 "modified and certified" TO RUN ON VERIZON for a fall release!!! 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. Everyone was excited to see real hardware matched to the os. Windows phone really was caught between a rock and a hard place. For example, it was corporate spend that kept Microsofts OEM revenues from falling heavily in its most recent quarter. I think we will see the opposite now that mobile is king. Threats are macro environment factors and developments that can derail business model of Nadella Satya. Almost all Developers cater to consumers because that is the largest growth market for trends and 15-minute fame apps. Massive announcements regarding things like this being dribbled out, half way, in Tweets -- and by someone who is not the head of the company? Please do yourself a favor, and get either an iPhone or Android device. "We have to get past what we describe as 'productivity . A survey says managers feel employees slack while working from home. As a company standpoinnt he did the right thing. 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. So Nutella just let down windows phone to focus on developping a bunch of Skype bots that nobody talk with? Probably over the years, enough for a decent car!! I connect back and forth between my personal SIM and my work / travel SIM without compromising my security. Mobile payment was the "next big thing" five years ago. The key problem with modern Windows phones, ie., W8M and W10M was apps. And MS completely borked the marketing of Win phones, which killed off its market share, and domino'd into devs not bothering with apps for it. They did this with browsers in the early days of the consumer based internet. PLEASE SET UP A "SURVEY" with both Are you upset that Satya Nadella is abandoning Windows Mobile? It seems you have the guts to take on things others don't. Then just like Centennial, allow Android apps to take advantage of UWP features (live tiles, etc) this is the 'extend'. 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. Android and iOS are, right now! 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. allow MEMU on windows mobile in the storeAll will be fine then! Without that key influx of new devices, Windows 8.xs store is all gussied up with no one to dance with. Exactly! At that time, the corporation's market capitalization was around $311 billion. If key talent departs, he could find himself lacking down-ticket leadership in key areas. That's ok though. 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" So their sole purpose was to select the highest priority ones and focus development on that. Microsoft supporter. Watch on. The entire current management team and board need to be shot. History does repeat itself, and in the corporate world it is usually because of poor management and lack of vision. When they do have good ideas they are late to the market and other companies beat them to the punch. Unless Microsoft also got more into the hardware like Apple, then it would be a real big market. Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Satya-Nadella, Satya Nadella - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), Microsoft bakes ChatGPT-like tech into search engine Bing. The X3 is a great device and could have easily been positioned as the transitional testbed for WoA/CShell/OneCore. This is the full audio of the session of the conversation recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland 18 January. Fact, the Lumia 520 proved there is a wp market in the US, period. Just because any phone has a big screen with a high res it does not mean it copied a Lumia! On their mobiles. 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. 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. Microsoft was churning maybe 20 million actual users. A very distant third, and dropping fast. Windows Mobile was the gateway to both those. - Changing Technology Landscape Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence boom is transforming the technology landscape that Nadella Satya operates in. Where did he come from Enterprise and servers. Everyone has seen the clip of Steve Ballmer doing that chant, right? I guess I hold a mobile phone and NOT a smart phone in my hand within long when all apps are discontinued. HDM would never make a Windows powered device. it could run Windows 10 on ARM CPU's and run win 32 x86 Desktop PC programs MS UWP Apps and Regular apps from the Windows 10 PC Microsoft store. 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 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.