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Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by Varcht »

sp332 wrote: post #37
Varcht wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it racist to not understand half of what is said through a thick accent? if it is I'm a big jerk. edit: why the down votes? Honest question, parent seems to be implying that its a bad thing that he adjusted to his environment, an environment where clear communication is paramount,.

a thick accent Do you mean Nadella's in particular? I didn't think it was that bad. Anyway it's only racist if you think less of a person just because you can't understand them. Remember there are lots of people who can't understand you, either.

No, Nadella is easy for me to understand. I was responding to the parent implying that he was somehow pressured to conform.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by [deleted] »

Varcht wrote: post #10
scotth wrote: post #3

I'm curious about his accent. It sounds like it would've taken a lot of work to develop. Is sounding American-ish a requirement of rising to the upper echelons of a company like Microsoft?

Is it racist to not understand half of what is said through a thick accent? if it is I'm a big jerk. edit: why the down votes? Honest question, parent seems to be implying that its a bad thing that he adjusted to his environment, an environment where clear communication is paramount,.

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Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by m_mueller »

w-m wrote: post #39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JwNZBJ_wI Interesting that they chose a walk and talk kind of thing, in a completely vacant office. What where they hurrying towards that they couldn't take the time to sit down?

It made me think of the logistics behind the video. "Hey everyone, the hallway is closed off for the next two hours because we want to show our new leader in an environment completely devoid of people."

Am I too cynical?

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by rbanffy »

leobelle wrote: post #30
tomswartz07 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it particularly interesting that they highlighted his work with *Nix systems in his early career. I don't want to draw any conclusions, but I have a good feeling about that.

Man, a fully functional supported bash-like terminal on Windows would be heaven sent.

It's called MinTTY and comes with Cygwin.

I'd never even consider using a Windows machine without it.

http://lifehacker.com/5185647/mintty-gives-cygwin-a-native-w...

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by Udo »

There's something deeply symbolic about watching those enthusiastic people doing their Sorkin walks for the camera through the vast and completely empty halls of the Microsoft offices (or is it a museum, I can't tell).

By the numbers, Microsoft is still incredibly relevant. At the same time, I can't even remember when I last used any MS product. It's not a boycott, there are simply no points where their stuff intersects with my life. I can imagine I'm not the only one, and that's not a comfortable position to be in for them. However, it's also difficult to see how they could ever break out of that. From where I'm standing they look like a partly consumer-focused IBM: rich, powerful, calcified, eternal, but computing has largely moved on and left them behind.

As a former MS user, I wish them all the success in the world turning this around.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by cygwin98 »

hatred wrote: post #52
JSno wrote: post #48

MS is going down. No doubt. Look at Motorola and Adobe.

Well I can't speak about Motorola but the stock price of ADBE of late suggests pretty strongly otherwise for a dying company.

Adobe is the monopoly in the desktop graphics tool market. Not sure why no VC targets it at this moment, which does seem like a slow dinosaur to attack on.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by caw »

venomsnake wrote: post #19
solaris152000 wrote: post #6

The email on his first day is an interesting read: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/feb14/02-04ma...

It is interesting how devoid of content it is. I think that much better way to motivate the troops is to give tangible goals and be brief. Anyway good luck be with him - from what I read in his bio he was heading the only part of MS recently that managed to not alienate its customer and developer base.

Having been at a company that recently underwent a CEO change, the first email is always fluffy. It's a greeting, gives their "big picture" strategy to give some idea of what's new with the new CEO, because that's every employee's concern right now.

In the next few weeks, the new CEO will be solidifying everything with Q&As, visiting the various campuses, and announce any new org changes. Org changes will be the big thing that impacts what individual contributors actually do in their jobs. Major changes to the 2014 strategy or goals would be announced soon, but seeing as how it's mid Q1 it's probably going to be changes for Q2 or 2H.

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