Amid suspicions that Microsoft is having trouble finding the perfect person to fill this role, Satya makes sense. I've always thought of him as an incredibly talented administrator rather than a brilliant general. He's a known person within Microsoft who can be a caretaker for the organization while the hunt for a CEO who can lead the next charge can continue.
Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
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Re: Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
#32A lot of Nokia employees are probably happy it isn't going to be Stephen Elop. I know this one is.
As a former NOKIAn I am sad. I want to see MS go down in flames and without Elop it's gonna be difficult. However Indians are also very talented at destroying the spirit of their own companies and alienating their users (see Harman or Adobe) so there is a hope...
As a current Nokian I find your attitude to be unrepresentative of what Nokia stands for, and unfair to the great many Nokians of Indian descent who helped make Nokia the incredible company it was.
Re: Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
#33A lot of Nokia employees are probably happy it isn't going to be Stephen Elop. I know this one is.
As a former NOKIAn I am sad. I want to see MS go down in flames and without Elop it's gonna be difficult. However Indians are also very talented at destroying the spirit of their own companies and alienating their users (see Harman or Adobe) so there is a hope...
I am impressed at your ability to psychoanalyze and shoehorn a billion plus people belonging to an extremely culturally, linguistically and genetically diverse subcontinent and paint them all with the same brush.
Re: Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
#34Big mistake IMO. I can't imagine Satya "the enterprise guy" being CEO of the devices company (he's probably qualified to be CEO for the "services" part of Microsoft). I'm wondering if him and Elop would work as co-CEOs, but history shows that's not a good idea either.
He was a lead on Bing and was working on Windows earlier. That's hardly enterprise.
Re: Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
#35A lot of Nokia employees are probably happy it isn't going to be Stephen Elop. I know this one is.
As a former NOKIAn I am sad. I want to see MS go down in flames and without Elop it's gonna be difficult. However Indians are also very talented at destroying the spirit of their own companies and alienating their users (see Harman or Adobe) so there is a hope...
> Indians are also very talented at destroying the spirit of their own companies and alienating their users
That's kinda racist
Re: Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
#36My 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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Re: Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
#37My 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.
Were those the only choices?
Re: Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
#38Background != Direction All this banter about it being a bad choice or a good choice because Satya's current role is enterprise focused is just goofy. Had Elop been chosen we would not be acting as if Microsoft is only a phone company now and is abandoning the enterprise.
I think the unspoken logic here is that Microsoft is already doing great in the enterprise and poorly on devices, so hiring somebody with the same distribution of strengths and weaknesses will just exacerbate the weaknesses without helping the strengths all that much (since they're already strong there).
Re: Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
#39Big mistake IMO. I can't imagine Satya "the enterprise guy" being CEO of the devices company (he's probably qualified to be CEO for the "services" part of Microsoft). I'm wondering if him and Elop would work as co-CEOs, but history shows that's not a good idea either.
He was a lead on Bing and was working on Windows earlier. That's hardly enterprise.
Nobody uses bing and Windows is largely enterprise. The entire value of Windows is enterprise management.
Re: Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO
#40My 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.
I don't think BillG would have allowed hiring someone with an MBA and no background in software/technology. He is still the majority shareholder (from what I've read) and sits on the board.