Still using Winpho till ATT says they won't support it. I had a chance to speak with developers on many occasions to urge them to do the relatively little work it required to create a Windows compatible app. Jason, did you sign an NDA with MS? I think MS should learn from google and apple. Let's look at the last 5-7 years. Time to focus, man. Managing desktop and server and client access licenses is enough to make even the most diligent accountant break into a cold sweat and grab his security blanket. Learn from mistakes and grow with concepts not with words.First and most important, build products/services for each and every person. Putting the best features of Windows on other eco systems isn't magically going to bring people over to MS. 7. Now all you do is to carve "Microsoft was here" in someone else's tree. And if I had an Xbox that would be on Craigslist tonight. last updated August 12, 2020. In that space, utlizing something like AR, comes into play for people holding phones in their hand, scanning their environment. Too late. So seen in that light I think Microsoft is doing damn well by supporting us until 2019. He's a first grade FOOL. no. Else what ninja cat rode which fire breathing unicorn? Never the less it's not to late, Microsoft has to formally announce on a massive stage, their mea culpa for abandoning consumers and how they will work to repair all the bridges they burnt. Strengths and Weaknesses are often restricted to companys internal - resources, skills and limitations. Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston (2018), "Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset Harvard Business Review Case Study. And you know what two years back they seemed to really start to look cool. Has strong global presence and a large distribution network. Worse-than-expected PC sales would also harm OEM revenues for Microsoft, both from consumers and enterprises. (See Gene Wilder in The Producers.). Does anyone knows the name of the weed he smokes? I will keep my Lumia 950 XL until it goes belly up. That could go poorly. That works out to 35M discounted (to free) phones. 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 I just got my android phone and my subscription to WPS office. 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. This approach can lead to poor public relation and customer backlash. , we specialize at analyzing & providing comprehensive, corporate SWOT And here we are again. I have been a Microsoft fan from the beginning and have enjoyed their products and I am a HUGE WINDOWSPHONE FAN but I am DONE! In fact, without the iPhone Apple would be a struggling little company. MS can do the world a favor and leave the consumer market altogether. About the time I got around to rewriting the app, since it worked just fine keeping it as an 8 app I took my time, 10 was coming out. This presents Nadella Satya two big challenges how to maintain loyal customers and how to cater to the new customers. It appears that Microsoft has forgotten how to be successful, please your customers. Why did users 'go off' the Windows Mobile as a solution? What really killed it though was the repeated reboots of mobile since WP7 where they left everyone in the dust moving forward. Nadella doesn't agree! Those are gentle, highly sanitized code words, of course. "People often ask how it's going," said Nadella. 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? Windows Phone just worked, but with each release they took away more and more features and broke other ones. Movies and TV will be next. And then make whatever changes seem appropriate without being panicked by a single shareholder whose holdings constitute less than 1 percent of all shares. 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. That was the most stupid decision except for leaving the market. We were told that Microsoft was compremetida with Windows 10 mobile and now we leave the users side, Microsoft Lords as you want to grow the quota if you do not sell phones and does not enough marketing and the developers are going other platform RMs. 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. 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 . According to global executive survey done by Harvard Business Review & Brightline Initiative Only 20% of the strategic targets set by organizations are realized. 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. MS just doesn't get internationalisation, or user needs outside of the US tech bubble. The world may not need a third ecosystem, but Microsoft needed to be that third ecosystem. Hi Bai, that's a valid point. This is a death note for Microsoft and they will go the way of IBM. You're dreaming. We know now how that turns out. 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. We need to think about unintended consequences of our technology, for example. Then just like Centennial, allow Android apps to take advantage of UWP features (live tiles, etc) this is the 'extend'. What really hurts is that people buy what they know. A typical day for Nadella begins with exercise and personal reflection. I will watch and see! "We have to get past what we describe as 'productivity . Me too. Nadella Satya has tried to diversify first using different brands and then by adding various features based on customer preferences. The fact that Google did and Microsoft didn't is, well, rather sad in my view. Certain apps were noticeably missing, but it remained a viable platform for many people and was even quite popular in a number of countries outside the US. This was the straw that broke the camel's back and I very much doubt they'll be relevant at all, in the consumer space, in a few years time. I don't know if I'm at all typical, but I was a loyal MS fan for years, and went to great effort to work within your ecosystem - phones, tablets, PC's. Omissions? They cancel products and services without thinking twice and assuming that consumers just have money to throw around to buy new products and services Opportunities are macro environment factors and developments that Nadella Satya can leverage either to consolidate existing market position or use them for further expansion. FOLKS PERHAP WE WILL SEE MICROSOFT DEBUT AND SELL A MINI TABLET CELL PHONES HYBRID DEViCE. Maybe it's a symptom of their hiring practices and cost cutting, but too many people who work at MS don't actually like the company. I just ordered a Pixel 2, created a Google account and will begin to transition over time from Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive & Cortana to all the other Google apps and programs too. The Nokia acquisition has the potential to bring in some hardware genius and sales that could scale up to 100 million devices a year in fairly short order. I'm totally agree.. - Squeezing Middle Class in Developed and Developing World The growing inequality is one of the biggest threat to not only globalization but also to capitalism. MS will be next IBM and after short time success in B2B market, they will slowly be lost like IBM does. This brings us to: A huge chunk of the PC market remains on Windows XP. Too little too late for me. The economy remains fragile. He placed an intentionally greater emphasis on empathy, individual empowerment, positivity, and growth. I still love my now essentially abandoned 950XL. I'm happily moving on to other platforms. So all the while Joe B was tap-dancing away for dear life to keep it afloat, Satya was making a throat-slashing sign in the background. Never again ! I've been in education since 1984. I think part of the reason we stick around following window phone news as a hobby/passion is because we are constantly yearning for iterative improvements. I mean for now they are great systems if you use OneDrive and windows 10 pc. I've been on windows phones for five years and they have been reliable workhorses that never had problems. The key difference is that the former is a reputation of perpetually stunted progress, vs a reputation of continuous progress. Related stories. He and his team are guiding one the world's most significant high-tech companies. They are better off waiting 10-15 years to appease the next generation of consumers and developers who have no history of being let down a dozen times. I mean VR and AI COULD be incorporated into XBox and PC..but thats not where the market is going. It's a shame. Microsoft is now worth more than $2.26 trillion. 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. Managers' fears about idle workers are creating what Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella calls "productivity paranoia," with undesirable resultslike spying on employees. 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. If Microsoft doesn't have a consumer precense then employees would need to keep track of two ecosystems instead of one meaning more work and complexity. I don't have any advice, but I think I have a pretty good idea of what's on the new boss's to-do list. Next segment is a combination of consumer and professional. There is virtually no Microsoft presence. Youi cannot preach "Windows Everywhere" and "Eco System" without looking at the profitibility of the combined effort. - Managing Regulations and Business Environment Nadella Satya operates in an environment where it faces numerous regulations and government diktats. Google doesit. Can someone from WC actually get a quick interview with this CEO?