So seen in that light I think Microsoft is doing damn well by supporting us until 2019. Whether or not Microsoft want to admit it was their own decision to give up when in fact they had a growing market with thanks to the Nokia team. It's sad really. Things will just get brighter and beautiful after this last major downhill. Yeah, lets abandon our user base, promise the moon and deliver dirt and then hope they come running back to us. By India Today Tech: Most companies, regardless of their sector, are calling employees back to the office now that COVID cases have dropped significantly. The Surface division had a rocky start but seems to have recovered after those initial stumbles. The only thing I can see is them forking Android apps to work natively on the PC. The fact that it was hard enough to get a 920 din't help. This is going to hurt Microsoft for the coming decades. Any "survey experts" to SEND A STRONG MESSAGE to Satya Nadella - I will sign and,can get dozens of others just by myself. I stand by that. In 2019 they will stop supporting win 10 mobile. 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. 1. Their actions speak louder than words. But it should lead the way for its products and services, and Windows Phone is the platform to do just that. This is going to cost Microsoft very dearly, and I don't think they will ever recover from this. Opportunities are macro environment factors and developments that Nadella Satya can leverage either to consolidate existing market position or use them for further expansion. What software do you use for music recording? Wasted my 20 years loyalty. 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". 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. Your phone would become a Windows Pocket PC running UWP apps with the ability to make phone calls. With great sadness, I powered off my Idol 4s for the last time last night and shortly aftert powered on my Note 8. Google can get into cloud services easily. Enterprise customers experience real pain every day thanks to Microsofts unbelievably complex licensing rules, which are practically sadistic. Time to focus, man. People hanging about in a burning house while walls fell down around them and ash filled their lungs, smh. Thank you, Brett. A big mistake. Like my Apple Watch, as a wearable, an iPad for a tablet experience (yes, I own a Surface Pro 4, but that's not a tablet-like experience for me) or switching to Apple Music because Groove wouldn't have albums available, when released (all to see them cancel the service out right). Along with this significant shift in product focus, Nadella also set expectations around how he wanted the Microsoft leadership cultureand, therefore, the culture of the organizationto shift. Professionally I have already been seeing a shift away from business even requesting MS products just for that reason and less interest in MS products when I propose them to clients. Although Microsoft have no obligation to me, their practices over Phone and Groove have me very cautious. One thing for sure Microsoft killed off it's chance to reenter the smart phone arena again, Consumers , it's oem partners. Now i rather have Phil spencer or Panos at head of Microsoft, people that stand behind their products and fans, consumers. Again, this is one of the bestarticles I read from you. But I've seen it time and time again in previous articles. Unless Microsoft also got more into the hardware like Apple, then it would be a real big market. 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. It's a follower and they don't want to admit itsad. 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. And devs don't care for users that buy 100$ phones. In fact, I would say Nadella and the Board are collectively insane. Very good comment @squire777and agree to most of it. VHS v Betamax, MP3 v losless audio, Beats Headphones v any named audio house) just which is the most popular. Here are the three traits that Nadella looks for in a leader: 1) Provide clarity In times of crisis or chaos, the people who are often looked up to, are those who are able to offer clarity and. 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. 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. 96% of his compensation was performance-based, up from 71%. I can't imagine Nadella doesn't realise this will happen he's the CEO after all. With the way they treated windows mobile and developers, it is going to be a real problem when (or if) they actually release this "andromeda" thing. Once they are gone they won't come back and they will bring the developers with them, My 2 cents. Hence a future where no Microsoft office is relevant or needed as other companies makes such solutions for huge eco-systems as IOS or Android? The announcement of the end of Groove on 12/31 together with a non-working Spotify app on my phone was the final straw for me. Balmer got it right when he wanted to populate users with inexpensive and fully usable handsets which bumped up the share to 4% world wide and around 15%in Europe only to be divested by Nadella. 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? HDM would never make a Windows powered device. If people aren't using Microsoft in their personal lives, it won't even enter their heads to use it in their commercial lives. But to do that they better get busy. I think MS should learn from google and apple. And my guess is that these items are all high on Nadellas to-do list. It limits the ability of the firm to build a sustainable competitive advantage. Guess my next phone will be a Samsung device because it will be a cold day in hell when I buy an Apple device. Should I take the bait yet again? By using the old adage of "embrace and extend". But they seem to be blind or plain stupid OK, so he admitted it. In fact, without the iPhone Apple would be a struggling little company. Nadella? This puts Nadella in the helm partway through two key and coinciding changes to the company. American computer scientist and entrepreneur, American software executive and space tourist, South Korean physician, educator, and entrepreneur. While actual revenue from direct OS purchase may not be as impressive market share matters. He didn't want to have purchased Nokia and it was his intention to crater the whole enterprise. Finally, he admitted that he made a FUBAR! Then throw us a carrot and make Messaging Everywhere work. Users wanted small things like transparent icons for Skype, office apps landscape mode for start screen. As a famous man once said, "the evidence is incontravertible." We dared buying your phones! What's the issue and im genuinely asking? They will naturally go with what they know, which won't be Microsoft. I noticed MS focused more and more on this third segment. May also look into jumping to the Apple ecosystem because it all just works together like the Microsoft one used to. MS wake up!!! The worst enemy of Microsoft could be inside the company, and because of that is mandatory for all employees to be re-evaluated, to measure their degree of commitment with Microsoft's goals. You dont need anyserver hardware or server OS licenses, just a Windows Azure instance that you can spin up (meter running) and down (youre off the clock) as needed. How much have you or your company invested in Microsoft "mobile" over the last 5 years? After all, I'm 'only' a consumer! Nadella had to get that message or they will relegated to be the next IBM as others have said. More than when Windows Mobile was changed to Window Phone 7, then 8, 8.1, then 10. Satya Nadella said reading a diary entry from his mom reminded him what leadership is really about. noun That's all MS can do now anyways. But, when you are a legacy icon, everyone wants to rip down your statue. It is Satya's defeatism and lack of vision and conviction that led to this. Weaknesses come from lack or absence of five key resources & capabilities - activities & processes, past experiences and successes, physical resources such as land, building, human resources, and financial resources . Nokia, when whole, was not a particularly profitable company. I see autistics as a gifted people to humanity. Bought a spare battery. I think MS does have plans for Mobile (probably in line with Zach's overall vision) but they don't like to show devices till they are ready. People are missing a key point. Not every one of your products and services will be a cash cow. The highest sales were 10.5 million with 2.7% of the market. As soon as loyal Phone users switch to iOS or Android they are only a step away from moving eco systems entirely. That was the finding of a survey on corporate attitudes by Microsoft Corp ., the workplace software giant and owner of LinkedIn. I love Windows Mobile for what it is but I am willing to give other things a shot with the caveat that I am going to very picky about the phone I get. Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, Nadella's up to something (cloud). Here's a bulletin for Satya NadellaYou have to have a range of products and services for your customers if you expect to keep them. As an end-user, I was frequently frustrated by the lack of a Windows Phone/Windows Mobile version for an app specialized to our industry. Best bet as of right now. enjoy Windows 10 (solid, great OS), if that's your main computer OS, find another option for a phone or mobile device. He has not changed his mind of that, just regretting that he did not pay closer attention to the phone base. It was created by Linkin Park, very touch screen friendly! 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. Microsoft is now worth more than $2.26 trillion. Sure, there's the Holodeck, but that's a plot device and not an actual envisioning of "how stuff gets done." I think it is a very intense business to do the digital "rights" management etc. It was doomed to failure, and it did fail. Learn from mistakes and grow with concepts not with words.First and most important, build products/services for each and every person. Building strategies based on consumer oriented product development and marketing approach. I'm worried about the state of the software. Falling growth is anathema to such dotage. HOWEVER, If the shift towards business grows and windows turns into a business only OS, with lack of cool features for producing, photos, videos etc, I am going to have to go to apple. OneDrive can easyly be swooped by Icloud on Iphones and Googe drive on Android phones. If Microsoft had put the entire $7B they spent on Nokia towards additional phone subsidies, lets say they could have made what was normally a $200 phone a free phone. No thanks MS. Bye Bye. The market research . Until now Microsoft has let all their phone users down. yeah people just don't understand the problem won't solve by simply having android apps to run on Windows 10. Anyone who seriously thought that Microsofts board was going to choose an outsider who was willing to blow up Microsofts core businesses was, um,qualified to runfor Mayor of Toronto. The most distructive piece of their abandoning product lines is the internal piece. All he did was avoid answers, while offering some nebulous comments that left loyal customers baffled. Lets take a moment instead to focus on what could go wrong for the new CEO. WTF??? Probably until battery run out. 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. 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. That's the way it was back in the day of Bill Gates, but those days are long over and it's their own fault. The ship was already torpedoed by the time Nadella got the helm. After that, who knows. Infinidim. Nadella will come out of this looking like a savior. - Increasing Standardization Nadella Satya can leverage this trend to reduce the number of offerings in the market and focus the marketing efforts on only the most successful products. sell high end phones at mid range prices) in an attempt to encourage adoption. I wish this information had been available a couple of weeks ago. From high hopes to seeing what a low life he really is. I just know that I have very little faith or trust in Microsoft keeping their word anymore. I'm on the Insiders program. They have opened the door and made it easy for the competitors. Define the line between business and consumer. Gates got it because he understood to compete in the technical arena you must cover the landscape with product. I guess I hold a mobile phone and NOT a smart phone in my hand within long when all apps are discontinued. I feel like they believe they're the trend setters of the industry and everybody will just follow them. Nadella needs to be replaced. Here are 5 insights Nadella shared throughout their discussion that illustrate leadership qualities within the changing workplace. Not to mention, updates for Win 10 & applications are poorly done and tested, which makes them a dice roll every time, as you cross your fingers that nothing breaks on your systems. At that time, the corporation's market capitalization was around $311 billion. The main problem here is that people can actually find free substitutes for those. 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. It's all good in their bank account for now. The key difference is that the former is a reputation of perpetually stunted progress, vs a reputation of continuous progress. Comments like yours prove nothing more than you fanboys deserve every bit of crap MS is doing to you, for being to blind to act when the time was right instead kissing Nutella's @$$ and joining MS's guinea pig insider program. At the time of his promotion, he was leading Cloud, one of the most important core businesses MS was venturing into. Felt completely abandoned. This is what we should expect from MS? So is leaving some software out from,10 like gestures beta lol. I think with the news of the demise of windows phone and groove are the pivotal sign, that consumer focus is traded for strictly business oriented investment (whatever that means). What is he planning to do to correct this? I've recently been on Android and had to go through the growing pains of my mom switching to iOS. So he's admitting that he's basically screwed the entire company with his boneheaded decisions that we all saw happening before our eyes. 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. Until then we can enjoy the many new Universal apps on our superior Lumia 950 (XL) phones. we also need to put the blame on AT&T. As far as MS is concerned, I use Windows and Office on a PC, just like I started out 20 years ago. no. Shortly after the deal closed in April 2014, he announced the largest layoff in Microsofts history; 18,000 positions were eliminated, the majority of which involved Nokia. He has sank this company and is now trying to save his ass. I agree with everyone on here! The faster release tempo is a good thing for consumers, but makes IT pros nervous. So market share never took off - regardless of the fact that the UI and overall experience was (and remains) far superior to the hunt-peck-oogle idiom of iPhone (which is like a nursery school toy) and Android (which sucks electrons faster than a Tesla at full speed). As Windows XP ages, it holds off future PC purchases and makes companies that use it less secure. But there are no wow factor you put into the phone.. Office 365 revenues fail to match declining traditional Office revenues. There are many, I can type endlessly about what Microsoft could do to repair bridges. Then we get them bought by HP. So if an Apple/Google competitor offers a competitive product then I will give it a good look, if not my first right of refusal. If this isn't just stupid IDK what is! When I was entrenched in the ecosystem, my phone and my pc worked so well together. They cancel products and services without thinking twice and assuming that consumers just have money to throw around to buy new products and services Just dropped us like a hot potato. Nadella is the worst CEO in the history of Microsoft, from a consumer point of view of course. What is taking shape now is that consumers are finally catching on that Microsoft within a short period of time gives up on hardware,for example Zune, Windows RT, Micosoft Band, and now Windows Phone. Another economic slowdown could harm business buying cycles that have been key forMicrosofts growth. If i can take my uwp over to some other lte device in the next year or two im happy. Back in 2006 subscribed after being a Tester of Windows Live OneCare for Microsoft, used that til 2009, which then was replaced by MSE while it detection rate was good at first, then not good, then started to get better again, feeling a little safer using Windows Defender lately as it's now tightly intergrated into Windows 8.1 and 10, so likely hood of them dropping it maybe less now. The problem is that Microsoft earn money on servers and support for Windows 10 pc. In effect it has contributed to its own entropy. But I also use Ableton Live 9 and I tried Reaper software too. Sounds to me like Mocrosoft are not a company to invest in, either by buying their kit or shares. ng l ch tch hi ng qun tr v tng gim c iu hnh ca Microsoft, k nhim cho Steve Ballmer vo nm 2014 vi t cch l gim c iu hnh [2] [3] v John W. Thompson vo nm I really do enjoy windows 10 as the best OS for computers. Azure could slip against Amazons AWS with Nadellas leadership tied up elsewhere. Nhu Tran February 10, 2023 Satya Nadella at Microsoft Case Study 1. Instead of that they rushed W10 mobile out of door without propper testing and made the whole world to laugh at them 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. As a company standpoinnt he did the right thing. Oh well. The high brass at MSFT has to be replaced. 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. Maybe it's not too late. If the current Windows users can use their MS stuff on either mobile platforms, they will be ok. I like the platform because it does what I need it to do. Microsoft should get off the market share thing and make a great product. It never translated to consumer sales for Apple computers. Give consumers less pricy OS. Market share just did not justify the expenditure for developers. 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. WebOS was a great OS on very underpowered hardware. Massive announcements regarding things like this being dribbled out, half way, in Tweets -- and by someone who is not the head of the company? he likes a phone that has support from the company who makes it. Why did they move to Windows 10 mobile, when they knew the Windows 10 OS was not good to go? By Satya Nadella Oct 12, 2022. Even IF they ship another new phone device with real windows 10 then WHY in earth should the current fan base care? Growing up as a young adult, all my home computer were Windows, 98- W10. Silly statement !! Or a watch. It faltered because MS failed to release any new compelling hardware to entice new buyers. Great! - 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. Thats where therolling-up-the-sleeves partbegins. It wasn't making headway. Started with an HTC Surround Windows 7 Phone back in 2011, kept that for a few years, then upgraded to Nokia Lumia 920 Windows 8 Phone, Things I liked about Windows 7 and 8 Phones, no worries on viruses or malware, the smooth intergreation with my Desktop, Sadly had to switch to Android in December 2015 as got tired of not having apps that I needed. I no longer consider myself a "Everything Microsoft" purchaser. The use of the term "I think" or "my view" might help us comprehend what has been said vs what you are saying. A new concept is really not going to do much because just like a new car/ blanket/ cone of ice cream/ new love.. etc.. doesn't replace the very first (the excitement, anticipation, thrill, vibe, energy can never be thesame), a new project won't replace windows phone in the hearts consumers, no matter whether it fails or succeeds.. 10 years? Perhaps even that one will go universal app as many others . The people who run HDM were the same people within NOKIA and tried to push the company to make those X platform android devices. To get developers, they would have needed 25% or more at least, and users that spend money in the app store. They develop for Windows and they get mobile, IOT, Desktop, tablet etc. Hell, I do too. You may want to try. When I had that thought I realised just how annoyed I am with Microsoft. PC? Do I miss Windows Phone yes, but they also didn't seem into promoting the platform, giving developers incentive to develop apps for the platform, or come out with decent new mobile phones It doesn't make any sense to support something useless anymore. Threats can emerge from various factors such as - technological innovations, economic growth, increase in consumer disposable income, political developments & policy changes, and changes in consumer preferences . So it comes to the cut from the sold apps, which is for the last year around 10 billion and then also for paying to promote your services (currently Google pays Apple 3 billions, but as it doesn't pay to itself let's say it is something like up to 10 billions). No such action has been taken so I call BS on MS. I was convinced that they will push mobile and UWP until it succeed and it would. I have personally seen such apps on existing windows tablets. Mobile is the future, and not just for consumers. Sorry, but that is just a lie. After going through a frustrating week of having to decide which phone to move to because my 1520 is officially dying and recieving news that I would essentially be wasting money by buying another Windows Mobile phone as they are pulling the plug, this is cold comfort. I started with Windows CE 1.0 and went through all of the different iterations of mobile software that Microsoft shipped. It's just business. In an act of outstanding bravery, on the same stage that hosted some of Ballmer's most gruesome power performances, stood Nadella, humble and soft . That is ultimate device without compromise, with Windows uniqueness, and without any app gap limitations. Right now the average Joe might see AI as Siri, Google now, and Alexa. @blue steel, That's ok though. I have stayed with Windows phone since the first version came out and now suddenly knowing that MS is abondoning this platform has caused me anguished and lose faith completely in MS. Will get ready to get an android phone (as I am never an apple fan) and also will migrate MS related apps to other platform too. Microsoft, you used to plant the tree. They've prob hushed up in light of this article lol. So there isn't too much money in the mobile - currently there is no company that earns even a dollar by selling operating systems. All I know is that I now sit here with an Lumia 950 XL phone that will loose apps support faster than water runs down the strain. Third category is pure professionals. You're dreaming. Groove was shut down (and even though they say they'll refund you 120% of outstanding value they're refusing to honor this with me as I have unused codes that have apparently "expired"- codes are valid though and the T&C's mention nothing about an export date). This adds one more reason why Microsoft struggles in consumers market. So no, it had nothing useful at a time when both Android and IOS were already much better. The Surface Phone has been promised for YEARS! And I'm going to kick the marketing guys arse until he puts together a decent global campaign. So I have to bring an extra MP3 player when traing next year? Hei Nadella! If you feel that you've constantly let consumers down (which actually you have) then do something to bridge that gap. Current management thinks they cannot lose because of the Windows desktop dominance, but they are wrong because both consumers and enterprises seek intergrated solutions these days. But as I think, it's not too late, there is still chance of Plan C, which is to fork Android (AOSP) from scratch and have consumers, carriers and OEMS happy because there is no app gap anymore. Even if it doesn't grow by very much and even if we have to build the apps ourselves, it's a non negotiable.