Actually after the 520 i equipped my family with 635, 640, and 830. Satya Nadella. So, MS, wake up. Many of us are tired of being abused by a company that used us then left us hanging high and dry. Another economic slowdown could harm business buying cycles that have been key forMicrosofts growth. That comment deserves an up vote. 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). And that's not even addressing the recent past - remember that time you upgraded your Windows phone OS only to find that it didn't support streaming any of your videos from the Movies and TV store? Felt completely abandoned. You won that battle because of the staple applications of Word & Excel, things people use everyday (like mobile phones of today), was a market you got into very early and stuck it out. Contacts (People), email, calendar etc are all tied to MSFT ecosystem and the mobile thread is Windows Phone. They have opened the door and made it easy for the competitors. Microsoft reminds me of IBM. They may bring out a reboot device. It is that simple. I highly doubt there were only 20 mil users seeing as I personally know loads who has bought into the Windows ecosystem with no input from me or someone like me. I look at this like eating at a restaurant that constantly gets your order wrong. Then we get them bought by HP. Still using Winpho till ATT says they won't support it. Every time I see an article like this it just leave me scratching my head how a "tech giant" like Microsoft abandons the largest market on the planet, mobile. This is a more general risk, but a portion of Microsofts recovery thus far is due to macroeconomic conditions outside of its control. I cannot come to purchase another mac. Surface had a solid fourth quarter in 2013, taking in $893 million on revenue. Time is running out, 8 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with MacOS or Windows, The most exciting phones at MWC 2023 (that you likely can't buy), The top satellite phones and gadgets for reliable off-grid communication, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. But to do that they better get busy. Yes, I am a disgruntled Microsoft phone owner who paid a premium price for a premium phone and is getting shafted by Microsoft once again. They will not be visible to the average user and that most of their existing devices will become not-so-profitable in a few years. - 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. 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. Nadella grew up in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and studied electrical engineering at Mangalore University (B.Sc., 1988). Satya Nadella, chief executive officer said in . Sorry, but that is just a lie. I have been Microsoft everything since the DOS days, not anymore. Does Continiuum not fit into the overall "not a phone but a new form factor for mobile computing" gameplan? I will never trust Microsoft again in the mobile area. Until then we can enjoy the many new Universal apps on our superior Lumia 950 (XL) phones. Could the future hold the possibility that the CPU, RAM and personal data is to be find in the smart phone and that the docking stations holds GPUs, extra hard drives etc. Give consumers less pricy OS. I'm saying if you believe otherwise, you're being driven by something other than statistical probability. Nadella Satya can use strengths to create niche positioning in the market, can strive to reduce & remove weaknesses so that it can better compete with competitors, look out to leverage opportunities provided by industry structure, regulations and other development in external environment, and finally make provisions and develop strategies to mitigate threats that can undermine the business model of Nadella Satya. A big mistake. Companies that go after short term profits and sacrifice visions always lose in the long term, and unfortunately MSFT is at that crossroad. What did we get, oh we are committed to WebOS and its future. Get an AMERICAN back in the job and DEPORT Satya. Associate Editor, Encyclopdia Britannica. Learn from mistakes and grow with concepts not with words.First and most important, build products/services for each and every person. While actual revenue from direct OS purchase may not be as impressive market share matters. Verizon sold Icons. It feels like Microsoft are deliberatey sabotaging themselves. The X3 is a great device and could have easily been positioned as the transitional testbed for WoA/CShell/OneCore. The best advice for Microsoft is to release a surface phone that does not look like a phone but is the ultimate device. - 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. 8. How will Microsoft stay relevant? Coolwill do. In Europe Nokia was doing much better than in the US. I am one of those MS loyalists who believed all the hype (now looking like BS) about Windows utility and productivity across all platforms. OEM's wisely took the choice of the free OS over a paid one. According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston , this can reduce the potential of success of Nadella Satya in the international market. To get developers, they would have needed 25% or more at least, and users that spend money in the app store. When MS failed to do anything to keep me as a customer, I finally switched to Apple (after resisting for years). Theyve probably got abackload of ideas they want to share. Maybe they didn't want anymore after that. Only to see that it was all a lie and have it sold to LG. We need to think about unintended consequences of our technology, for example. I think abandoning Windows 10 mobile was a mistake, I realised when I was looking at the AR headsets they just released and I thought "but maybe they will abandon it in a year or two". Link to the interview please. They have only just started releasing a modem the market (apple) likes. It doesn't pass the Star Trek Tech test: There's gazillions of handheld devices in the Star Trek universe. I understand why people weren't happy with Ballmer. There are things I found on my 928 8.1 phone that my 950 W10M still cannot do? It had features that the iPhone couldn't simply do until the iPhone 3 came out. This includes a base salary of $918,917, along with $3,600,000 in cash bonus and $12,729 in perquisites. - Project Management is too focused on internal delivery rather than considering all the interests of external stakeholders. And PC volume has been the savior of the Windows 8.x platform as it has slowly arranged its ducks in a row. The fact that Google did and Microsoft didn't is, well, rather sad in my view. That was the finding of a survey on corporate attitudes by Microsoft Corp ., the workplace software giant and owner of LinkedIn. 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. 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. "I did not get why the world needed the 'fourth' ecosystem in 'Cloud Solutions', unless we changed the rules." Does MS really think that Google and Apple are going to let it provide the cutting edge apps and services on their OS? If you are not making a mobile device then you are not creating the ecosystem for your services. Going . I bought a Zune, loved it! - Implementation of Technology in Processes Even though Nadella Satya has integrated technology in the backend processes it has still not able to harness the power of technology in the front end processes. Personally, I'd return to Windows mobile if they had a decent offering on Verizon. A fine figure, but one that only points to a third of a billion dollars or so in revenue. This is the guy who wrote Nutella was a genius. History does repeat itself, and in the corporate world it is usually because of poor management and lack of vision. We know now how that turns out. It would take, at this point a complete 360, but than again they've already done that twice. The use of the term "I think" or "my view" might help us comprehend what has been said vs what you are saying. DO NOT bring back gates. People used to say that about the original Xbox, but then MS went out and paid for great games. Now I use a Pixel it doesn't really talk with my PC. Ive done most of the leg work already on what impact Nokia could have on Microsofts earnings, and it looked slight. I want another Windows device for mobile but I can't make an informed decison without information. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. 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. I know because I still have one. They need to be serious on there each and every commitment. Just once. The truth is that they drop a very good system that is starting to work very well. The Surface Phone has been promised for YEARS! we also need to put the blame on AT&T. He articulated the company's mission, transformed the corporate culture, and formed strategic partnerships with Microsoft's fiercest . You want him to do all that while writing a book??? Apps were coming over fairly regularly and MS put a lot of energy into its Xamarin purchase and development. Now, even tho I like Windows 10 (desktop), i'm done. Why did they not keep windows 8.1 for phones going, releasing new phones on that OS instead of 950 on windows 10? (I know that is sarcastic, but there is a bit of truth therein) There was no commitment to follow through. As you rightly point out, Jason, "eradicating" Windows phones and their ngegative perception was paramount to "hitting refresh". Now, you have recognised that mobile is the entry to nearly everything else. Nothing is cast in concrete anymore, but that goes in both directions. 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. He and his team are guiding one the world's most significant high-tech companies. Most mobile phone carriers are bundling ever more minutes and texts in plans because people have moved to data. The Microsoft CEO ranks at No. There isn't a single company in the world that earns a dime by selling very cheap phones. Literally any effing body can do that in his position. I haven't seen any apologists here today. And it looks to me like a huge mistake. And sadly true. Yeah, this will hurt them. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and . Unlike an outsider, Nadella knows precisely Microsoft's strengths and weaknesses, and has . It wouldn't be that hard for a company with massive cash reseeves to get, what, 150 to 200 top apps and games. 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. Believe me when I tell you that windows phone had always been a beta test. This adds one more reason why Microsoft struggles in consumers market. Easy: Nadella must be replaced ASAP before Microsoft becomes the new IBM Xerox, Atari, Nintendo, etc No company is to big to disappear what he means is that MSFT will eventually only cater to enterprise and hide behind the iron curtain. He oversees Microsoft's computer software and hardware products, including Windows, Xbox, Surface, Office 365, and Bing. I mean what should force people to keep using Microsoft Office on the mini PCs of the future. yes you guessed correctly that is the smart phones that will be docked like you have seen with Continium. 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. So the more you sell the more money you throw in. 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 products they do release these days are pointless - the Surface studio is only for a niche audience, and the Surface laptop is overpriced for what it does. Even the iphone needed a reboot every week or two. So the future is going to be more difficult because Microsoft filed to develop a mobile OS market Maybe if he'd actually listen to the Windows fans, this could have been avoided. The thing that frustrates me the most about this is how the company was so secretive about its vision for Windows on phones; or lack thereof. You can create superb augmented reality but if people are using it on the device people have in their pocket you are lost. However my contract expires in the next few months so I shall just keep my options open and see what happens. The Nokia deal is about to bring a huge chunk of new staff into Microsofts business roughly at the same time that it is picking up a new leader. Its up to Nadella to ensure that the Surface project can finally be taken off financial life support and walk under its own steam. 3. The common denominator is management arrogance and death spiral sub-optimization. They should have just purchasedParallels and created a Parallels for windows phone that runs ios and android apps and we would not even be having this conversation. If Google made a Google laptop running android with similar interface to Windows. No big deal. They aren't the only ones. At this point in history, with cutthroat competition from every side, theres little room for anything resembling dilettantism. and then, MS release a half baked piece of garbage that they called a smart phone. 1. Yea. that'll work. So give them a fair listen. The four key elements of SWOT analysis are - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats. I guess I hold a mobile phone and NOT a smart phone in my hand within long when all apps are discontinued. 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. At that time, the corporation's market capitalization was around $311 billion. I will never ever buy a Microsoft product again. They dominate in search and Android, maybe IoT, but that is questionable. Yes. My L950 is still kicking. With Microsoft nearly out of the consumer space businesses are feeling less inclined to use other Microsoft products because of the increased complexity. Admitting you made a mistake takes more integrity than continuing down the wrong path. The MS supporters voiced this over and over and he failed to listen. W10/S/ARM will allcome up short becausethewhole damCORE idea depends on UWP to move forward. If you want more socialization then the univeral apps would make that possible. May also look into jumping to the Apple ecosystem because it all just works together like the Microsoft one used to. The party has lasted for more than a decade and rollback from Fed can result in huge interest costs for Nadella Satya. No Windows/Microsoft mobiles means no OS that makes Microsoft Office relevant. Yes it was a collosal failure to abandon those loyal to the platform. As people starts to use Android and Iphones Microsoft office is not the only choice their. Apple and Google leak like seives and MS know they keep their cache with the big reveals. 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. EXCELLENT POINT, I completely agree!!! I feel betrayed and very disappointed. Thank you for speaking the truth about Ballmer & Satya pushing things Ballmer already implemented or on his product roadmap. Making room for it in your Zune memory drawer? They wouldnt let Tmobile, Sprint and Verizon have a foothold on the devices. Keep up the great work Windows Central team. Students and even teachers have chromebooks, the developers once so important for Microsoft have fled already and are concentrating on iOS/Android/webapps where the users are. Its shortsighted. Lets take a moment instead to focus on what could go wrong for the new CEO. It was over when Google gave Android away for free and Microsoft kept charging for Windows 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