How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#1

Post by known » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:02 PM UTC

How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
economist.com

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#2

Post by dimitrios1 » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:41 PM UTC

For better or for worse, time will tell, but there is no denying this at this point. To take an organization of that size with that much legacy managment and business processes, code and do what he has done is quite the feat.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#3

Post by bluedino » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:44 PM UTC

What's the reason for Microsoft services/support going downhill so bad?

I can remember in the 2000's, they had spectacular paid support on their stuff.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#4

Post by skummetmaelk » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:46 PM UTC

Nadella turned Microsoft into a data mining operation just like the rest of the FAANG gang and the market rewarded him.

Surveillance capitalism must be regulated out of existence.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#5

Post by actuator » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:47 PM UTC

skummetmaelk wrote: post #4

Nadella turned Microsoft into a data mining operation just like the rest of the FAANG gang and the market rewarded him. Surveillance capitalism must be regulated out of existence.

Isn't Azure leading the turnaround, not Windows?

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#6

Post by cheschire » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:48 PM UTC

bluedino wrote: post #3

What's the reason for Microsoft services/support going downhill so bad? I can remember in the 2000's, they had spectacular paid support on their stuff.

Maybe I was lucky and just had a string of good PFE’s, but my experience with MS support has been great.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#7

Post by bachmeier » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:50 PM UTC

skummetmaelk wrote: post #4

Nadella turned Microsoft into a data mining operation just like the rest of the FAANG gang and the market rewarded him. Surveillance capitalism must be regulated out of existence.

Was Ballmer a big proponent of privacy?

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#8

Post by tiffanyh » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:51 PM UTC

I'm as big of a Satya fan as anyone, but someone who doesn't get enough credit is Ballmer.

It wasn't a coincidence that on the day Ballmer stepped down and Satya became CEO (2014), Microsoft also announced Office for iOS, Cloud first strategy, and a whole slew of cloud/Azure product announcements.

All of which was developed under Ballmer watch and he handed off the launch and continued execution to Satya.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#9

Post by baybal2 » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:51 PM UTC

No he didn't. He turned the company even harder to farming plumpy corporate clients whom they already had on software+service deals with "cloud" thing subscriptions. A Microsoft salesman who visited us last year was almost begging us to switch to Cloud AD from regular AD. This is how hard they are moving toward that.

It was just a long delayed admission that you can't make a lot of money on offline boxed software sales today.

Re: How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

#10

Post by cammil » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:53 PM UTC

dimitrios1 wrote: post #2

For better or for worse, time will tell, but there is no denying this at this point. To take an organization of that size with that much legacy managment and business processes, code and do what he has done is quite the feat.

Just to play devils advocate, isn't that the whole point of a CEO? It seems to me that true change can only happen if it comes from the highest influence. Of course that's not to say that just because the CEO changes that business change will happen