It doesn't have to compete against companies that make a lot of gadgets. This is sucky. I see autistics as a gifted people to humanity. Given how people flip when it comes to analytics and Microsoft. Yeah, it's called hundred dollar bills. The WMR headsets i mean. Let's go back to Windows Millennium - remember how it was a new exciting release and that, even though it sucked, they had service packs coming that would usher in a whole new user experience. It wasn't as straightforward as "keep mobile alive at the cost of other projects" or "killing mobile is the only way to start working in new ideas" Microsoft should get off the market share thing and make a great product. Huh. A survey says managers feel employees slack while working from home. PLEASE SET UP A "SURVEY" with both Are you upset that Satya Nadella is abandoning Windows Mobile? - 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. They cancel products and services without thinking twice and assuming that consumers just have money to throw around to buy new products and services If people start to use other software than Microsoft Office on those Android phones and Iphones then well then Microsoft is actually tottally irrelevant on the smartphones and hence really out of the bit data business in the smart phone business. Apple gets it, Google gets it, Adobe gets it, and Amazon gets it; but Microsoft misses it. A strong desktop market would entice many app developers to implement at least some UWP features making the Windows based app experience minimally equal to native Android but in some cases, better because of the Windows unique integration. My, how time flies. 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. I always changed phone carriers just to get my hands on the latest Windows Phone. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and . And there are no royalties. We dared buying your phones! Office 365 revenues fail to match declining traditional Office revenues. There isn't a single company in the world that earns a dime by selling very cheap phones. The few million people who owned windows phones I guarantee were Microsoft's biggest fans. So Nutella just let down windows phone to focus on developping a bunch of Skype bots that nobody talk with? Microsoft makes billions every year from the sale of the Android operating system. Not only is the phone going to die, but Win10 updates disable their own MS software. This time, it promises, will be different. HE SHOULD READ ALOT OF BOOK!!! We're going to move to Android and IOS, and anything MS announces "in the future" won't matter to those who have moved on. As far as reaching out to developers, I was a hobby developer for WP starting with 8,I made a simple application using the built in componentsand methods that Microsoft recommended. Google and Apple are committed and welcome talent. Consumers and business want a third choice or at the very least they want to be able to decide. If the goal is a unified platform and therefore only on OS shared by all devices, then developers need not develop for "mobile." The four key elements of SWOT analysis are - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats. Next segment is a combination of consumer and professional. Or that employees/consumers with Android or Apple phones are going to adopt MS's AI, MR, Cortana, Edge, etc., etc. Profits in the short term will improve, but viability of their technology will be replaced as customers seek other alternatives. 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. Some (Low) percentage would simply not work anyways, depending on how they were written. Microsoft is really sorry about those other times it deserted you but it loves you - it's getting counseling and turning over a new leaf. I believe so. Bigger than the US obviously. Much of the above is completely theoretical. When I switched to the LG G6 I decided to give Google's services a try and let's be honest other than office Google's offerings are better than Microsoft's especially on an android phone. And yeah, Europe has long ceased to be the center of the universe. Congratulations, you got lucky. That's why I am sure Nadella is not making a "mistake" in his mind. There had to be many outside influences to help with marketing that. How many toy manufactures, production companies (film/tv), IoT, lifestyle (airport/bank/taxi/fast food etc) have an app/game. WP is not OneCore so RIP WP, as announced. Considering phones are what will power VR/AR, especially as they get more and more powerful, the desktop is not where mixed reality will reside in the long term, so Microsoft has set itself up for failure there as well. I "personally" spent over $3,000 on Windows Phones and now it's all down the drain!!! As is, whatever they do, they will do without OEM support at first, which could be tricky. I'm a 20+ year developer, and I had three different windows phones for over 6 years. I say, it's never too late for Microsoft to put out a device and market it, as they should have been doing with previous devices, and it taking off. My L950 is still kicking. It has experimented in various areas Leadership, Organizational culture. Integrate with it's huge number of mobiles and one day, the mobile OS will become the business OS. This almost-great Raspberry Pi alternative is missing one key feature, This $75 dock turns your Mac Mini into a Mac Studio (sort of), Samsung's Galaxy S23 Plus is the Goldilocks of Smartphones, How the New Space Race Will Drive Innovation, How the metaverse will change the future of work and society, Digital transformation: Trends and insights for success, Software development: Emerging trends and changing roles, constitute less than 1 percent of all shares, acting head of the server and enterprise group, reporting to Nadella. Microsoft crowned a new leader today, with Satya Nadella taking over the reins from exiting CEO Steve Ballmer. It's now over, and they will suffer the market consequences for many years to come. As developers we embrace new technologies, and most of us have spent much money and many hours learning it. Go now Natella.. During the recent interview with business podcast Marketplace's Corner Office, Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17 now available with 13th Gen Intel CPUs and NVIDIA RTX 40-Series graphics, Resident Evil 4 remake preview: Darker and sleeker but still beautifully cheesy, Bing Chat can now switch between tones at the switch of a toggle, Monster Hunter: Rise and 19 other games headed to NVIDIA GeForce NOW in March. Nadella made the obvious,and sensible,business decision to pull the plug. 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. Satya seems to have loyalty issues, with users, with developers and with Microsoft former employees. That was the most stupid decision except for leaving the market. Yes it was a collosal failure to abandon those loyal to the platform. He obviously had a plan and in hindsight not a good one. Maybe other basic apps like To-Do or even Windows Central? - Increase in Consumer Disposable Income Nadella Satya can use the increasing disposable income to build a new business model where customers start paying progressively for using its products. Good, but completely and utterly useless, worth a poofteenth of nothing unless you actually demonstrate you've learned your lesson by acting to correct your mistake. Yeah, some of the analogies in these comments are beyond the pale. The notion that it wasn't making headway is just a lie. These Experts Are Racing to Protect AI From Hackers. But what really happened? I'm actually considering holding my nose and going to Apple in the hope of finding some systemic consistency. If Nokia X, Astoria and iOS Bridge would have the attention they deserverd, today we would see OEMs selling Microsoft's mobile OS capable of running Bank applications, Airline ticket applications, Snapchat, Youtube, etc. He has steered the company away from a. Not a clunky old device from work - because outside of the tech industry most people don't get shiny new laptops every 12-18months. I fully expect Amazon to buy MS..sooner than later. The company had "revenue of $30.6 billion, net income of $8.8 billion, and earnings per share of $1.14 (compared to revenue of $26.8 billion, net income of $7.4 billion, and earnings per share . Meanwhile, they failed spectacularly in the biggest markets such as US and China. I really do enjoy windows 10 as the best OS for computers. It helps him to spend time appreciating life's blessings. Microsoft's handling of mobile will be studied in B-School in the future alongside case studies of Atari.. Its not too late, Satya has made mistakes, but he did launched Nokia X but didn't put enough resources and marketing campaign so that Android app developers like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat could see that their apps could finally run on a Microsoft product. Using Nadella Satya strengths to consolidate and expand the market position. 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. "First, I believe that, at its most powerful, technology can be a force for good in the world," he says. 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. This is what we should expect from MS? le It's just business. Corrections? I'm on the Insiders program. Microsoft has officially jumped the shark. Not because of the content and information but mainly because its just sad. The windows phone works well for integration to server based sytems, whether they are corporate or personal enterprises. There is virtually no Microsoft presence. It's about new management practices and . When they do have good ideas they are late to the market and other companies beat them to the punch. For an operating system that Microsoft wants to go dark in April, thats downright depressing. Google can get into cloud services easily. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shares his thoughts on work from home culture. The launchers and Cortana they came out with on Android are nice, but they didn't even bother to properly integrate Cortana into the launcher. MS has very deliberately started funneling their fans to other platforms this past week and it's very upsetting because I truly love and enjoy Windows Mobile and have used a variation of it for the past 10+ years. Once we turn our backs on Microsoft - no matter how hard that decision is to take - there won't be any going back, unfortunately. Now given the fact that the future of computing for the masses is mobile I do not see Microsoft dropping that at all but rather trying to change the approach to mobile for the next generation of computing. SInce Nadella seems to be incapable of grasping the strategic environment he finds himself in given the context of the tech industry, let me put this in retail termsit's 2005 and Google is Walmart, Apple is Target, and Microsoft is Sears. Many people wish for single product / service which perfectly blends there all needs. It's about time Nadella and Microsoft showed some loyalty to us and themselves as well.. Not only will they earn respect but it'll also be a rallying point.. Game of Thrones should have taught the lesson by now, even a ******* can become king, and loyalty is key to that. except MSFT doesn't care about its own loyal users, with many of them switching to Android now. I'm happily moving on to other platforms. It's a follower and they don't want to admit itsad. It's good for Android, iOS, and Windows! They aren't the only ones. Nokia, when whole, was not a particularly profitable company. I was going to buy a new Surface Laptop. MS wake up!!! This puts Nadella in the helm partway through two key and coinciding changes to the company. Microsoft is preparing an update to Windows 8.x that is mostly focused on improving the Mouse And Keyboard experience, not its touch brother. Like a domestic violence victim, MS fanboys everywhere should be asking some critical questions about the relationship they find themselves in. A few apps on iOS and android will do nothing to change that as Microsoft become a forgotten company for the vast majority of users. My 950XL still works and I like it and the W10M approach. Win 10 pcs are nowhere near 1.5 billion, and never will be. Too much hubris. I don't see a long term future even for windows if this idea fails. This so reminds me of when I had my Palm Pre. F-YOU MS I'M DONE. The truth is that they drop a very good system that is starting to work very well. I'm getting off track), updated features. The general consensus seems to be mobile is an essential component to any future. Let's look at the last 5-7 years. I hardly read Windows Central anymore either as the notifications are ***** on Android. They will fail at AR/VR etc with the same gusto. So, give them something they are familiar with but with a settingoption where they could useeither Live Tiles or Icons. Putting the best features of Windows on other eco systems isn't magically going to bring people over to MS. Why does Microsoft need to be in the phone/mobile OS market? Now, you have recognised that mobile is the entry to nearly everything else. He has no dream or overarching vision. 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. He said he saw a world where Personal Interactive Devices (Pcs then), Portable Interactive Devices (a then yet to be made hybrid of mobile phone and PDA), and Social Interactive Devices (TVs then) were only different in the way people interacteed with them. Yes, it could be a long time before that end, but the end has to start sometime. I suspect it will be announced at the right time (not a second earlier) and it will definitely be oriented at corporate use and prosumers. - Threats of New Entrants because of Reducing Costs and Increasing Efficiencies As Nadella Satya can leverage low cost of reaching customers using social media and e-commerce, so can the competitors both local and international competitors.