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. Windowsphone was not about phone. This is the full audio of the session of the conversation recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland 18 January. MS has basically managed Windows Phone in the same light. Where did he come from Enterprise and servers. Phones arent't he new shiney objects anymore but that doesn't mean they're not relevant. As people starts to use Android and Iphones Microsoft office is not the only choice their. To get developers, they would have needed 25% or more at least, and users that spend money in the app store. Consumers and business want a third choice or at the very least they want to be able to decide. They have burned too many bridges and lost too much trust. Good article Jason. That may not be the case. This approach can lead to poor public relation and customer backlash. Nadella will come out of this looking like a savior. For years, he's never given a straight answer to anything, especially Win phones. Well by then Microsoft will either have a new mobile phone system ready or be irrelevant in the mobile business. It will go a long, long way. Companies that go after short term profits and sacrifice visions always lose in the long term, and unfortunately MSFT is at that crossroad. Integrate the Nokia division without bloodshed. 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!?!?! I will say I diddefend the guy from time to time but now, after buying into the hardware and software game from Microsoft and then finding out later, they scrap it anyways. allow MEMU on windows mobile in the storeAll will be fine then! + Surface RT, and two Surface Pro versions. Because we all perceive and parse thoughts and feelings differently (cognitive processes and any forms of bias). They are going SMALLER. Thank you, Brett. If they did that thenthe OS could be loaded on to a phone. hprbl/ Go ahead and pull the arm of the compting slot machine and cross your fingers. Android is not all that great, even though it was either that or an expensive iPhone with no way to use the MS apps by default. I no longer consider myself a "Everything Microsoft" purchaser. 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? If they had demonstrated that resolve, maybe developers would have been more willing to feed an emerging market of users. People hanging about in a burning house while walls fell down around them and ash filled their lungs, smh. The temptation so far for the managers at Nadella Satya is to focus on the domestic market only. Here are some of Satya Nadella's recommended books from the past that are also worth reading. But music is a different beast and the spotify deal enables MS to focus on their long term goal (OneCore etc.). Google and Apple are committed and welcome talent. Enabling them to help lower insurance premiums for safe drivers, a vault for safe drivers of sorts. The ship was already torpedoed by the time Nadella got the helm. Then they ******* kill Grove music. In his own words, he needed to change the rules of the game. I'm a former java developer who has been swayed towards UWP and to "one software works on all devices" paradigm. Image: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui By Sushma U N Published November 7, 2017 It was over when Google gave Android away for free and Microsoft kept charging for Windows Mobile. All he should do really is make a cup of coffee, sit up, stick to the vision of windows phone and figure it out.. How else do you show your loyalty to the consumers and your own brand? Removing such items from the list of devices, that can be the vehicle for the future developments, will hurt the overall reception to anything MS is attempting to achieve. Thank you for speaking the truth about Ballmer & Satya pushing things Ballmer already implemented or on his product roadmap. 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 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. If only HP had its own mobile platform. Cheers to all! This adds one more reason why Microsoft struggles in consumers market. It faltered because MS failed to release any new compelling hardware to entice new buyers. I can honestly say, I would go back to my windows phone in a heartbeat if it had the same apps and a future. Win 10 pcs are nowhere near 1.5 billion, and never will be. My 950XL still works and I like it and the W10M approach. "I did not get why the world needed the third ecosystem in phones, unless we changed the rules." Just once. For once I would like to hear a tech journalist that focuses on Microsoft products ask that one question. 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. They would have been the first to buy mixed reality devices and paid monthly for Xbox gold and Groove. Let's look at the last 5-7 years.
Satya Nadella | Biography & Facts | Britannica How much would it really cost to provide support for some company to continue W10M on a phone that it could sell at a profit? NOKIA X was by NOKIA and not Microsoft. However, since I only have hints of what they are working on with Windows on ARM and CShell, I have to pick up something else. If he'd have done the same thing with PCs that he did with phones, we wouldn't even be talking about Microsoft anymore. The kids are seeing a daily dose of Apple and Chrome. He made mistakes. What unlock shareholder value really means is sell off or spin off assets andgive the cash to shareholders. Which might be at odds with the long-term strategy of the company itself. Azure could slip against Amazons AWS with Nadellas leadership tied up elsewhere. 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. I can't imagine Nadella doesn't realise this will happen he's the CEO after all. It is also clear that WinPhone/WinMob was a cluster-f from the day iOS was launched and WinMob 6.5 was terrible by comparison. The synchronization between the 3 is important to me. 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. I've heard about apps/software that can make an Android look like a Windows Phone home screen, but how much like the original are those softwares/apps? - 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. Corrections? MS, however, feel differently? 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. He needs plenty of energy and motivation to face his busy day. will consider using VM now. 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. Google has failed at various markets. I mean VR and AI COULD be incorporated into XBox and PC..but thats not where the market is going. 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. Ok, then where are all these European sales? There is was one path forward as I see it. 7. abandon consumer market is a bad choose Heres a thought, why not sell Windowsphone to HDM or whoever bought Nokia. After having been unceremoniously dumped so many times, I don't trust you any more. That was the finding of a survey on corporate attitudes by Microsoft Corp ., the workplace software giant and owner of LinkedIn. . As you rightly point out, Jason, "eradicating" Windows phones and their ngegative perception was paramount to "hitting refresh". I searched (and still do and I don't know why) every day looking for the next MS mobile phone such a waste of time. The mythical Windows future device to change the world. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. 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". Apple has tried for decades to crack Enterprise and their desktop share hasn't moved.
? Satya Nadella - Leadership & Life Lessons | Geeknack It build devices to support it's main enterprise google analytics, that is their prime engine for profit. Ask Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, what the most pressing problems are that he is working to solve right now and he will give you two answers. You want him to do all that while writing a book??? The single OS may be from different ecosystems, like Apple of MS but other than that all devices would communicate, access data, and integrate relativly seamlessly. MS was not in the position to deliver half-baked stuff at that time. We'll done for addressing this point. Mobile is small?? Nadella has been a technical, "Big Iron" guy his entire career. The co - founder of Microsoft - Mr. Bill Gates was the mentor of Satya Nadella. Just because any phone has a big screen with a high res it does not mean it copied a Lumia! Their exclusivity killed windows phone. The market research . It's that re-affirmed bias that drives most developers to target the platform with a larger base group. You'll likely follow phone news less and less. What really hurt Windows Phone was empty promises that they lost interest on keeping. 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. Other than that, this company is doomed. Nadella's greatest weakness may be his lack of consumer market experience. WP gained decent marketshare in several TINY markets due to selling cheap (aka low or no margin) phones like Lumia 520, 640 etc.