Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO

From one former Milwaukeean to another, I hope this kicks more recruiters to the area. With three major universities in the city, there was a dismal number of national recruiters dropping by when I lived there (about a decade ago now, maybe things are different).

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Post by owenwil » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 10:23 PM UTC

That's disappointing. I was really hoping that it would be someone external to the company who would be visionary enough to take them to new heights. Instead, they're picking the safe, enterprise bet, who won't change things too much.

I would say Microsoft's consumer facing days are numbered.

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Post by jedmeyers » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 10:24 PM UTC

My personal opinion is that for Microsoft this is a much better solution than to hire an external CEO with an MBA and no background in software/technology. If the news are true then I wish all the luck to Mr. Nadella.

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Post by 0A0D66 » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 10:33 PM UTC

suprjami wrote: post #3

What an article. "It could be this person. Or this one. Or this one or this one or this one or this entire list of people."

What? It mentions one name for CEO and one for chairman. The last bit is just names that were looked at during the process.

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Post by swalsh » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 10:34 PM UTC

owenwil wrote: post #5

That's disappointing. I was really hoping that it would be someone external to the company who would be visionary enough to take them to new heights. Instead, they're picking the safe, enterprise bet, who won't change things too much. I would say Microsoft's consumer facing days are numbered.

As a Microsoft Developer, I don't want a Microsoft with new vision. I want a Microsoft that will continue to build a great platform to build business applications on.

We moved away from WPF after Windows 8. We gravitated towards ASP.NET MVC, but increasingly started using Angular JS.

While I love these new javascript libs, I miss the great tool set that Microsoft always provided. Without that, I think we can eventually move completely off Microsoft without looking back.

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Post by swalsh » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 10:37 PM UTC

jonhohle wrote: post #4

From one former Milwaukeean to another, I hope this kicks more recruiters to the area. With three major universities in the city, there was a dismal number of national recruiters dropping by when I lived there (about a decade ago now, maybe things are different).

I grew up in the Milwaukee area, but eventually moved to Boston. I think it produces a decent amount of talent (my school had a great technical program) but there's not a lot of interesting employers there.

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Post by jmspring » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 10:38 PM UTC

All the talk of needing a turn around specialist, I personally don't see it. Really, a visionary or someone who can actually come up with a constructive, actionable plan that grows market share (in realm of focus) and revenues makes sense to me. I would like someone less steeped in the monoculture that is Redmond, but Satya will be a solid choice. Tony Bates would be my preference for "internal candidate".

Of course these are just my personal opinions.

If Bill Gates is removed as Chairman that will be a major change.