Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO

Post by cwp » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 3:13 PM UTC

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Background != 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).

Post by wisty » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

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Satya has an MBA too. I was just commenting on my previous comment. I guess author meant that someone just with MBA as a qualification and no relevant tech background would have been bad deal since MBAs get hired in leadership role even if they may or may not possess relevant domain knowledge.

Nobody is going to get hired as CEO of an $80 billion a year company with just an MBA. It would be an MBA plus 20-30 years of business experience, and these days it's almost impossible to avoid technology completely. I'm not even sure domain knowledge is important for a CEO of a company that size: once you become a $50 billion plus company, you don't have time to get involved with the details of the business.

Post by pnathan » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 5:20 PM UTC

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They basically own the entire PC market, and most of the enterprise market. What more do you want? It's like bitching that Walmart hasn't cornered Starbucks. Jesus.

The thing is, the "PC market" is rather artificially defined to be that market in which Microsoft dominates. If you take the generic concept of "personal computer", what people were using those for five or ten years ago, people are now often using smartphones and tablets. Due to how the market is segmented for analysis, this isn't counted against Microsoft, but the money doesn't care how we segment it. The PC, in the…

Post by nivla » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

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>Nobody uses bing Not sure if you are trying to pull out the old faded joke or being truly serious. Bing has about 18%-27% market share depending on Organic vs Powered By. No I am not nitpicking a specific blog article, infact its the first summarized link on a Google search for "Bing market share". Bing also powers Siri, which is another major contributor. >Windows is largely enterprise. Its revenue may be largely e…

> No I am not nitpicking a specific blog article It would be 'nitpicking' to point out that you were not 'cherry picking' one from many possible articles to support your point.

Post by kyberias » Fri, Jan 31, 2014, 6:24 PM UTC

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Care to elaborate? When I get new messages in a IM window on Lync, and the window is not active, the icon on the taskbar is being blinked.

Right. So imagine if you have two or more monitors, and the one with the taskbar is two or three feet away from where your focus is. The little blinking square is hardly noticeable then, especially if you rarely use the taskbar (and how would you if you have four screens, it will give you RSI just mousing over there every time). There is one semi-cheesy third-party app which adds more obvious notification, but as it…