All he did was avoid answers, while offering some nebulous comments that left loyal customers baffled. Do they have a big market share? Besides it offers some features copied in the latest iPhone x. It never translated to consumer sales for Apple computers. It will go a long, long way. Of course most people don't know about or use W10 M so they will not be feeling as I do. Able to create hardware and software products that are compatible with other technologies/products. Unless/until hundreds of millions are sold, no one is going to write MOBILE apps for it, because developers have all been burned too many times. CEO Satya Nadella prepares Microsoft for an epic bounce-back - Access to International Talent in Global Market One of the challenges Nadella Satya facing right now is limited access to high level talent market because of limited budget. Should have appointed a visionary instead. "I did not get why the world needed the third ecosystem in phones, unless we changed the rules." Why even would they drop the already established product? Satya Nadella said reading a diary entry from his mom reminded him what leadership is really about. (Like gmail instead of outlook mail and calendar). According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston of Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study, this has provided Nadella Satya resources to not only thwart competitive pressures but also to invest into research and development. Microsoft did the same thing. Although the loss of Groove Music Pass hurts. For once I would like to hear a tech journalist that focuses on Microsoft products ask that one question. I am staying with my April 2017 Lumia 950XL (UK) till it no longer works. With the former, you'd have a stronger infrastructure but higher lead time. Nadella is a cloud guy, which is the strong growth future for Microsoft. " Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. I just can't see how MS will stay relevant in the consumer space as a result of this, even if they re-enter with 'what's next' and more to the point, they're definitely missing something when a lot of the industry is targeting consumers rather than enterprise. Satya Nadella Takes Leadership Lessons From Philosopher - Insider The next step is to move to that model for Windows-powered consumer devices. I fully expect Amazon to buy MS..sooner than later. Satya Nadella is a CEO who was born in India. My #1 'Forever Dividend' Stock [sponsor] Analysis of Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study. Engage with consumer spaces that they have not traditionally engaged in so secure infotainment systems, this will allow to fine tune 5g tech and leverage azure with Cortana analytics. I see very very dark days ahead for Microsoft and guess what YOU DESERVE IT! If he'd have done the same thing with PCs that he did with phones, we wouldn't even be talking about Microsoft anymore. - Robust Domestic Market that Nadella Satya Operates in - The domestic market in which Nadella Satya is operating is both a source of strength and roadblock to the growth and innovation of the company. Actually after the 520 i equipped my family with 635, 640, and 830. He has not changed his mind of that, just regretting that he did not pay closer attention to the phone base. Satya Nadella, chief executive officer said in . A heck of a way to treat your customers. Android and iOS are clearly both better than they were, but I just prefer the layout and feel of W10 M. I am not sure what I will do next, part of me thinks "buy a 950XL or an X3 but they might ditch support in 6 months". No such action has been taken so I call BS on MS. surely not - there will be books written about how they failed in that area. Wasted my 20 years loyalty. I'm done with MS. You might get lucky but I'm not betting on you any more. Phones arent't he new shiney objects anymore but that doesn't mean they're not relevant. They need to name and market it under a different moniker!!!! It's that re-affirmed bias that drives most developers to target the platform with a larger base group. Microsoft CEO admits repeatedly abandoning consumers was a mistake They could have moved the new Insider fork to just the X3 and kept a core group of loyalists happy while testbeding the tech. After that, who knows. Green mushroom for you windows mobile fanatic. MS, however, feel differently? Nadella needs to find a way to increase tablet sales, a device class that I suspect uses Windows Store apps on a larger per-unit scale than other form factors. The only thing I can see is them forking Android apps to work natively on the PC. 6 Satya Nadella Quotes to Inspire Business Leaders They may bring out a reboot device. Now, I am backing out of ALL their services and I am going to speak with my waller and go neck deep into the Apple Ecosystem. He had cynically deceived loyal fans of W10M. Europe has 750 000 000 people, that's a bigger market than US. He joined Microsoft in 1992 and became CEO of the company in 2014. Although Microsoft have no obligation to me, their practices over Phone and Groove have me very cautious. I'm very happy with my iPhone. Just once. An original Xbox, 5 different Xbox 360's(red ring of death on two of them(! This would not be Changing The Game. In the countries where it had any market share to talk about it was gaining. If he really wants to show/repair this divide he has created by constantly abandoning consumers then its time to sit up, stick with the concept of windows phone/mobile, make a cup of coffee and figure it out.. No other way to do it.. A new product will not replace the loyalty and trust lost by throwing out windows phone (just like buying a new cone of ice cream doesn't replace the one that fell.. Even the iphone needed a reboot every week or two. - Diverse Product Portfolio of Nadella Satya The products and brand portfolio of Nadella Satya is enabling it to target various segments in the domestic market at the same time. 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. Folks Microsoft is a company that gets most of it's income from selling software and services to Enterprrise/Business customers.and to people who sell or and use Desktop PC's. Along with other noisy activist shareholders, ValueAct says its goal is to work constructively with management and/or the company's board to implement a strategy or strategies that maximize returns for all shareholders.. Its the substance abuse of choice for the 23rd/24th etc centuries. 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. I'm not saying developers won't embrace UWP or that Microsoft will cast aside AR within two years of taking your $500. I feel betrayed and very disappointed. 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. It seems entertainment and software are what Microsoft can handle (and precariously, at best, if you consider their bungled XBOX messaging over the years). I chose to go with a Nokia 6 (running pure Android 7.1.1) and use Microsoft apps on it. Glad I'm not one of them because after year one he needed to be fired or put back in charge of the cloud department and someone else put in charge! Yea. that'll work. The son of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella died Monday. - Lack of critical talent I believe that Nadella Satya is suffering from lack of critical talent especially in the field of technology & digital transformation. 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. Certainly, I'm not qualified to see the future or manage a multinational corporation, but even with phones being a money pit, it's one of those investments that look to me like a necessity, like Bing was. Windowsphone never delivered Microsoft Pay but Google and Apple did deliver mobile payments and are exploiting a technology Microsoft have missed. It limits the ability of the firm to build a sustainable competitive advantage. From this armchair analyst's view, the whole thing failed simply because Satya wanted it to. American computer scientist and entrepreneur, American software executive and space tourist, South Korean physician, educator, and entrepreneur. The global PC market is expected to contract a few points this year, and then bottom out in 2015. I was expecting the unveiling of a Surface Phone this fall. WP8 was the beginning of Microsoft's downward spiral in mobile because while they just started to get serious in mobile, iPhone was already in on it's 4th generation and Android was picking up steam due to it's open ended platform. Regards VHS v Betamax, MP3 v losless audio, Beats Headphones v any named audio house) just which is the most popular. "Computing is getting embedded in the real world, in a manufacturing plant, in a retail setting, in a hospital, in a farm," Nadella said. They seem to care about users of other platforms more than they do about users of MS' own services. After the 3rd, 4th 5th time they get it wrong, I'm sure you would write off that place from getting your money and time, because they clearly can't or don't care about your service. "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. But it is possible to enforce some sanity in the transition from licensed software tosubscription services. except MSFT doesn't care about its own loyal users, with many of them switching to Android now. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. This so reminds me of when I had my Palm Pre. 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. Get an AMERICAN back in the job and DEPORT Satya. - Growing Market Size and Evolving Preferences of Consumers Over the last decade and half the market size has grown at brisk pace. They have burned too many bridges and lost too much trust. - Project Management is too focused on internal delivery rather than considering all the interests of external stakeholders. They had huge volume of insiders giving them feedback for free. Instead they killed it with their lack of interest. Roll your sleeves up and put in some work Nadella/Microsoft.. Because if you can't make windows phone work..Then I wonder.. what cat was riding a fire breathing unicorn? As soon as loyal Phone users switch to iOS or Android they are only a step away from moving eco systems entirely. In terms of achieving more successful innovation and bringing further improvement in the organizational growth, the business environment at Microsoft should be reviewed to determine the strengths and weaknesses. I was a fan of MS but the end of windows phone and the end of groove music is the end for me, MS have a story of letting people down, and I cannot make a come back to them in any future, they lose me for ever android central, here I come lol. But this never happened at MS because too many people who were supposed to be shaping technology of the future would rather see iOS and Android be successful rather than their own product. Why did they move to Windows 10 mobile, when they knew the Windows 10 OS was not good to go? He needs plenty of energy and motivation to face his busy day. I got fed up swithed the machine to a Linux OS and got everything working again, but I haven't had a Sony product in my house ever since and I won't. F-YOU MS I'M DONE. Everything MS tries ends in failure.. But the mere cost of Surface revenue was more than the revenue itself, meaning that the larger Surface loss for the period was much larger than you might think. The following list is a sample of the issues and challenges that Nadella may face during his tenure as CEO of Microsoft: Windows Phone growth stalls, failing to reach the 10 percent mark in the. Everyone has at least two mobile devices - phone and tablet and mostly they don't run Microsoft OS. I'm shocked how the Surface tablets are doing. The really really sad thing is that for a while ago, I was still defending for W10M and truly believed that MS had something cool they are working on. Microsoft's CEO wrote for Fast Company about a quote from philosopher Sren Kierkegaard that . No one cares about that. Do you even marketing bro? Who will buy MS product except company who use Office and cloud. Explain me how developers could have ever been motivated to create new apps for the platform after Nadella sold the complete mobile department to Foxxconn in 2015, not making any new model since Can we gate Steve and Bill back in to the office and run MS once more? Satya Nadella's closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset SWOT Analysis All of this is training the customer to realize more and more that they don't need Microsoft and their "ecosystem" anymore How can he NOT see that!?!?! And users on Android and iOS simply replace MS services with Google's and Apple's. I think any decision he made was going to cost Microsoft something. I noticed MS focused more and more on this third segment. Nadella Satya can use two approaches - building on present strengths, or analyze the trend and build processes to two pronged market penetration approach. This brings us to: A huge chunk of the PC market remains on Windows XP. This adds one more reason why Microsoft struggles in consumers market. Windows Phones excellent 2013 was capped by a disappointing fourth quarter sales figure of Lumia Windows Phone handsets. They've completely ignored the most faithful consumer base of the company. While a Surface Phone would have me interested, to think the percentage of people who would care is above the 3% (if that), would be a dream. Well, I started getting angry with Mr. Softy when they screwed over we Surface RT owners. BS! the reason i stick with windows 10 only because of photoshop. Nadella's job is to make Microsoft as profitable as possible, and I'm sure that he was under pressure from shareholders to cut the dead weight. Just how much will Satya Nadella get paid? Because all of it.every last bit of itis important." 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. As developers we embrace new technologies, and most of us have spent much money and many hours learning it. It's not that Nadella lacks an ego, and the robust financial results his company has racked up give him undeniable bragging rights. Spending heavily to support your new business model is a good plan. It's very difficult to tell what is quote, secondary source, or your opinion in these articles. the Dell's, HP, Asus, Acers,Lenovo's WILL engage because they will have the opportunity to break open (in the long run) a market that is now in the hands of a duopoly (Apple and Samsung). Guess my next phone will be a Samsung device because it will be a cold day in hell when I buy an Apple device. Does MS really think that Google and Apple are going to let it provide the cutting edge apps and services on their OS? Remember that Nokia had a huge following in the world outside of the US. @Sean D. I completely agree. It is actually fairly small, though still offers chances to earn few billions for the operating system company, so it is not something that should be ignored by a big company, just if you ask whether it is normal that other things were priority, yes it is. Learn from mistakes and grow with concepts not with words.First and most important, build products/services for each and every person. They dominate in the iPhone That is it. (That means its a corporate-PR approved part of the official narrative.). In Leadership, Organizational culture areas, the firm needs to navigate environment by building strong relationship with lobby groups and political network. The party has lasted for more than a decade and rollback from Fed can result in huge interest costs for Nadella Satya. Nadella has said from the get go that Microsoft is committed to mobile. Going to business users was literally following Blackberry to its grave. IBM was always focused on corporate sales (mainframes). - High Margins Nadella Satya charges a premium compare to its competitors. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the most successful CEO of the Tech But as noted by NOT having a precesence in Mobile with a OS that cleanly integrates into the PC, they are failing.