It happpened to IBM, Sears, GE, GM, Kodak, BestBuy, Polaroid, and a host of others. So I have to bring an extra MP3 player when traing next year? But as noted by NOT having a precesence in Mobile with a OS that cleanly integrates into the PC, they are failing. 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. PC market is diminishing; tablet market is diminishing Without that key influx of new devices, Windows 8.xs store is all gussied up with no one to dance with. 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 I like that idea. Probably then he would pay attention and his bottom line would change Amd that of his short term investors. They will also see how easy and tempting it is to stay with just one ecosystem. Its no good chasing the 'shiny new thing' if you cannot make your kit work now. The high brass at MSFT has to be replaced. They embraced the browser market and extended it with special html handling. He needs plenty of energy and motivation to face his busy day. Only to see that it was all a lie and have it sold to LG. In a recent interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he failed, multiple times, to remain committed to consumers who have shown a commitment to Microsoft. Earlier that year his wife, Anu, had given him a best-selling book by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck entitled Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, suspecting it might give Nadella some ideas for Microsoft. Maybe other basic apps like To-Do or even Windows Central? Sure, there's the Holodeck, but that's a plot device and not an actual envisioning of "how stuff gets done." While working full-time at Microsoft, Nadella also earned (1997) a masters degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. The son of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella died Monday. Very true. This is sucky. Pretty much what I have been saying. The biggest OS company in the world, who promised Windows on any form of device -- and yet it gives up on phones and smartwatches? Look inside most of our elementary schools. They had more than a fair chance, and now they are done. There were other quarters where the % was higher, but sales were lower. The weaknesses of Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset are - Aligning sales with marketing - It come across in the case study Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset that the firm needs to have more collaboration between its sales team and marketing team. That was the finding of a survey on corporate attitudes by Microsoft Corp ., the workplace software giant and owner of LinkedIn. But then Microsoft figured - it's just a couple of hundred bucks down the crapper, I mean, you've already stood by me through so much. Let's look at the last 5-7 years. - Inventory Management Based on the details provided in the Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study, we can conclude that Nadella Satya is not efficiently managing the inventory and cash cycle. Thus, he was biased for Azure and various cloud initiatives. Microsoft has been strident in the past in stating that it intends to have strong margins on the Surface line of products. But music is a different beast and the spotify deal enables MS to focus on their long term goal (OneCore etc.). Not every one of your products and services will be a cash cow. An original Xbox, 5 different Xbox 360's(red ring of death on two of them(! MS has to get into mobile to stay relevant - even with business WP had no developer to speak of and there was 0% chance of it ever challenging Android oriOS. These Experts Are Racing to Protect AI From Hackers. Leaders with intellectual stimulation traits motivate employees to rethink prior situations and problems in new ways. 8. the reason i stick with windows 10 only because of photoshop. AR is already a fail: look what they did with HoloLens, it's 2 yars now. Weaknesses are the areas, capabilities or skills in which Nadella Satya lacks. Satya Nadella's weakness shows he's human like the rest of us A Hyderabadi romantic. like most CEOs who just ride the wave and make up BS as things change around them to try to keep the share price humming Nadella is the same. MBA students will look at it for years to come. That's more than just fanboys. Satya Nadella is an Indian-American business executive who is best known for being the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft.Before becoming CEO, he served as the executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group of Microsoft.Satya has been the recipient of honors like the Financial Times' "Person of the Year", Fortune magazine's "Businessperson of the Year", and CNBC . The worst enemy of Microsoft could be inside the company, and because of that is mandatory for all employees to be re-evaluated, to measure their degree of commitment with Microsoft's goals. So back to windows i went.twice! It works perfectly, we get updates each month that don't cause problems on the phone. It was more important to shake the long building reputation that MS is a company of startup technology which never gets finished to a point where end users, developers, and OEM partners can achieve a reasonable ROI for their time, and money investments, than to shake the stigma of a slow progressing ecosystem. Why did users 'go off' the Windows Mobile as a solution? We shouldn't actually be in this space to begin with, if you were leading from the front or at the very least reaching out to your consumers and closely hearing what is being said. I feel your pain! I will never trust Microsoft again in the mobile area. Along with this significant shift in product focus, Nadella also set expectations around how he wanted the Microsoft leadership cultureand, therefore, the culture of the organizationto shift. Because we all perceive and parse thoughts and feelings differently (cognitive processes and any forms of bias). Satya Nadella wakes at 7 am, three hours after Apple CEO Tim Cook. Satya Nadella replaced billionaire Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO in 2014. This is the guy who wrote Nutella was a genius. Satya Nadella "Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience." Satya Nadella "We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work." Satya Nadella "Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. Microsoft should build its own variant of Android in same way Amazon did with Fire OS. Apple does that in a single quarter, so even this desperation strategy would likely have failed. If you pretend to be a global player you'd better have people in your Board that are connected to the different regions you want to serve, so that also goes for Asia-Pacific, China etc. Thatmemorable momentwas first uploaded to YouTube in 2006, more than eight years ago. Microsoft may have done better to keep a controlling share of Nokia and just let it run itself. Consumers that nowadays exist around a mobile ecosystem. They cut down every interesting product. Windows phone really was caught between a rock and a hard place. Now how will Microsoft stay relevant when the majority of the users dock their powerful Iphones or Android phones to a docking station and uses big scrrens and use Office software made by Apple or Goodle android. Please don't waste my time anymore with these kind of articles. when Google and Apple are successfully marketing their own products? Android simply cannot compete on the core functionality and integration of multiple accounts. 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. @cryio.My son has autism. Still, no amount of wishful thinking was going to save the platform. What's the issue and im genuinely asking? He's the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, and one of only three in their history. I was idealist I told myself I'd add my two bits to this grand idea against the odds because I believed in it. It is all masterful sleight of hand to distract attention away from weakness in enterprise spending, the genesis of Microsoft's core business. If there was one bone-head move in recent times I would reverse it would have been leaving HP out to dry. Satya decided to scrap it. Developers may see it as a new platform, and knowing how MS dumped windows mobile, they are going to be afraid to put any work into software for andromeda, for fear it will be dumped a year or two down the road. Why even would they drop the already established product? All rights reserved. Soooo, back out of mobile which is something that literally people in every corner of the planet use, or need, but jump onto some super-niche, iffy at best crap like VR? 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. "My response is very eastern: We're making great progress, but we should never be done."1 The "lost decade" Just 17 days after founder and technical whizz Bill Gates handed over the reins to Steve Ballmer in 2000, the stock market crashed. 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. 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. They develop for Windows and they get mobile, IOT, Desktop, tablet etc. They stupidly justified every move of Microsoft instead of criticizing it. I will NEVER buy MS hardware again! I wish this information had been available a couple of weeks ago. Please forget about Win32 antiques. A loyal user since Win 3.1I dispair. Microsoft was among the first companies to exceed a $1 trillion valuation when it hit that milestone in April 2019. Once we turn our backs on Microsoft - no matter how hard that decision is to take - there won't be any going back, unfortunately. "We didn't get . MS was not in the position to deliver half-baked stuff at that time. SINGAPORE November 17, 2022 Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella visited Singapore today to experience first-hand how innovative technologies and insights are supporting the region's technology ecosystem of developers, startups and companies across every industry. History does repeat itself, and in the corporate world it is usually because of poor management and lack of vision. Because you never understood Windows Phone, you jackass. I once had a SONY Vaio PC, The company stopped supporting it. Enterprise customers experience real pain every day thanks to Microsofts unbelievably complex licensing rules, which are practically sadistic. Testing RFID blocking cards: Do they work? I still see people in the subway with their iPhone 4. Windows 10 mobile finally intergrated with all of it's relative platforms through cloud syncing making it a hybrid of sorts between iPhone and Android, allowing an ideal environment for users to exist in a multiplatform ecosystem. I think Windows 10 as OS should be friendly with all types of nature. No thanks MS. Bye Bye. What is he planning to do to correct this? Zain Nadella, 26, was born with cerebral palsy. Contacts (People), email, calendar etc are all tied to MSFT ecosystem and the mobile thread is Windows Phone. MS its late but not completely out of race. I love how everyone seems to think Google and apple can conquer every market. How long before Movies and TV go? So let's market a phone that is not a phone for the fear of recalling the big fiasco made out of 10% of mobile market share they made out of Windows Phone/windows 10 mobile. From high hopes to seeing what a low life he really is. That's all MS can do now anyways. What "unlock shareholder. Quit being so stupid and open All devices to All carriers, Idiots. And while all that is going on I'm also going to invest massively in windows on arm, VR, AR, AI, cloud and everything else I think is important. 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. Ah, forgive my little moment. The mobile division was a money pit that was unlikely to turn a profit anytime soon (ifever); Bellifore even said that they had a PAY developers to make WP apps. But neither has Windows on PC, albeit some can run it. Hell, I do too. Yea. that'll work. With Microsoft nearly out of the consumer space businesses are feeling less inclined to use other Microsoft products because of the increased complexity. This time, it promises, will be different. 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". Haven't got them. Even in AR and AI MS is posed to fail! And no Surface Phone. Just as Google's Chrome was a trojan horse on Windows, Microsoft needs to build an app(s) on Android and iOS that consumers fall in love with and can't live without. For example, more will start use google docs and storage (due to integration with phone etc.) In my experience because too many didn't even realise it existed due to a total lack of marketing. With great sadness, I powered off my Idol 4s for the last time last night and shortly aftert powered on my Note 8. Mobiles are now the gateway product to tech not enterprise systems. If MS has truely solved the CORE system then the Nadellas comments and the rest make sense and the development problem of a "mobile," desktop, and Social (Smart TV, IOT world) becomes trule nothing but a semantic difference in how a user interacts. But, in the harsh afterglow of Googles Motorola purchase and sale, you have to wonder what might happen. Microsoft partners earned an estimated $9.58 in revenue through services and software for every $1 that Microsoft generated in 2020a total of $984 billion, according to IDC. It's good for Android, iOS, and Windows! 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. 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. Seriously, Nadella is an example of the Peter Principle and MS needs new leadership that can harness the enthusiasm of their devs and customers to re-introduce Win phones and improve their offerings & quality across the board. 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 . Then I hope Microsoft phone are on their feet again. No idea. Currently idk how Microsoft can do to become great again. And theres progress in the cloud as well. They have only just started releasing a modem the market (apple) likes. Maybe it's not too late. March 2, 2022, 9:52 AM PST. To them, if one aspect of infrastructure is failing, you cut it out and either replace it with a better part or you cut it out and re-route, as that's the cheapest option with a lower lead time. On a MacBook, I like the simplicity of garageband. They've completely ignored the most faithful consumer base of the company. Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston (2018), "Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset Harvard Business Review Case Study. Yeah, some of the analogies in these comments are beyond the pale. Threats are macro environment factors and developments that can derail business model of Nadella Satya. I'm done with this. And I'm going to kick the marketing guys arse until he puts together a decent global campaign. That fanboy attitude also helped killing Windows Phones. They may bring out a reboot device. Not only has he failed loyal consumers multiple times, he continues to fail as a CEO in providing a true vision beyond what he wants for himself. Nadella Satya can use two approaches - building on present strengths, or analyze the trend and build processes to two pronged market penetration approach. Windows rules the desktop and laptop marketatthe moment. For me it's time to move on. It's a shame as I'm heavily invested in the MS ecosystem, but it's quite obvious they are not interested in the consultation market. Balmer got it right when he wanted to populate users with inexpensive and fully usable handsets which bumped up the share to 4% world wide and around 15%in Europe only to be divested by Nadella. @blue steel, If Microsoft is going to spend lots of money building iOS and Android apps to link Microsoft services to these OS, why wouldn't they do the same for W10M? So it comes to the cut from the sold apps, which is for the last year around 10 billion and then also for paying to promote your services (currently Google pays Apple 3 billions, but as it doesn't pay to itself let's say it is something like up to 10 billions). It's very difficult to tell what is quote, secondary source, or your opinion in these articles. He has more commitment, vision, drive, passion and focus than this assclown running microsoft. What software do you use for music recording? 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. 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. Of course I don't expect any company to do that. I haven't seen it today either. Yet they keep making the same mistakes, over and over and over. My view is Microsoft have missed the next wave because the platform they have is peripheral to the next wave. In my opinion, cancelling phones was bad decision which will lead to the downfall of MS. Also, while Nadella is generally considered to be well-liked internally, he can hardly be universally popular. WP8 was suposed to be a transtion from WP7 and shed all of the Widows Ce core code from the platform but they lost all the basic functionality of WP7. yes, it was the best music service out there, now I don't know where to go, all the other service habe a flaw spotify don't allow personal library, google music don't have a PC apps, you have to use a third party apps, and apple music well, it's apple.. It never translated to consumer sales for Apple computers. But what was the point while Microsoft was sending contrary and mixed signals all the long. Why didn't it affect worldwide numbers at all? Hei Nadella! If the PC market sees continued weakness akin to what happened in 2013, PC unit volume could decline until key partner OEMs bow out. It is written by Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston and deals with topics in areas such as Organizational Development Leadership, Organizational culture In 1988, Satya completed his bachelor's degree at Manipal Institute in electronic engineering. Satya Nadella is a CEO who was born in India. As a company standpoinnt he did the right thing. 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. I know a lot of people want to blame Nadella, but that fault is on Balmer. Mobile is small?? They will be around for a very long time and if you don't understand that well, it's obvious you don't. With the former, you'd have a stronger infrastructure but higher lead time. I'm done with MS. That flips and Nadella has a new problem on his hands. Perhaps people will not go back right now, but at least they should have kept some marketshare by by not killing win 7 phones, win 8 phones and then now declare end of line for win 10 mobile phones in 2019 July like 2 years after launching two flagship phones(Lumia 950/950 XL) and only one year after HP Elite x3 release and well the recently released Alcaltel Idol 4 phone Also you fail to see the importants of big data and its relations with the smart phones and the built in software such as Google docs and on IOS Numbers.