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Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by pmelendez »

sbt wrote: post #110
skywhopper wrote: post #40

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I hope that this is just doublespeak to reassure people who think Gates is important to Microsoft's future success. Personally, I think both Microsoft and the world would be better off if Gates stepped away completely and focussed all of his efforts on the Gates Foundation's work.

I agree, I find it difficult to see how Gates lurking around would be productive for Microsoft. A new CEO needs to establish their own direction and rapport among employees, but the mere presence of Gates could prove too much in the way of politics there. I think Bill Gates is brilliant, but if I was a major shareholder in MSFT, I would have him focus all his efforts on his foundation.

The new CEO actually asked Gates for help, so I guess it would be cooperation more than anything.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by geophile »

wil421 wrote: post #70
Udo wrote: post #58

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 interse…

You must not work in the corporate world. Microsoft has a massive foothold in enterprise: email, instant messaging (lync), excel, word, visio, project, even sharepoint and those are just the pieces you can see not to mention whats going in the backend. Being one of the only Mac users in my office I constantly have to find work arounds for everything. Sadly they will be relevant for a long time we have almost 30,000 p…

The decline of Microsoft will be a generational thing. At some point, those offices are going to be inhabited by kids who grew up with google docs, dropbox, a variety of IM options, and who have never seen a native email client.

When these kids grow up and enter the workforce, they will want to use the tools they know, and will not understand the point of in-house Windows sysadmins, or the software licensing fees.

My 21-year old daughter grew up using Microsoft products, and has abandoned them completely. Everything she does is in the cloud, (mostly google, yahoo for email). She enters the workforce in one year.

Whatever the new CEO does, he basically cannot win back a generation that has learned to do office tasks on non-Microsoft products. It's sort of like what happened with GM. They produced absolutely shitty cars in the 80s, and many people who had early experiences with those cars started buying Japanese cars and stayed there. (No, I don't have statistics to cite, that's just my impression and personal experience.)

I give Microsoft ten years until their first quarterly loss.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by Touche »

I'm very skeptical of them going with someone who's been with the company that long. I think they needed an outsider. I was glad when the Sundar Pichai rumor started.

Also think it's a bad thing that Gates is going to take a more active role as the technology world today is very different from when he dominated. Gates is famously (if the stories are true) the one who didn't like the Courier tablet, for example.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by moron4hire »

batmansbelt wrote: post #104
raverbashing wrote: post #85

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I don't know, but unfortunately I am very skeptical of NGOs, and charities It looks like 80% of the money goes for "management" and the rest goes to the actual people in need. Not to mention the contracted "fundraisers" that are paid poorly. (I have nothing against the fundraisers per se, they're usually college kids trying to make some money)

It's true that governments are much more efficient at delivering funds than charities. It's an economy of scale. Also governments have a lot more oversight than charities do.

That is the complete, 100% opposite of reality. Charities have tons of reporting requirements that they have to meet to demonstrate--to the government--that they aren't at least a money laundering operation, say nothing about using the funds appropriately. There is no such equivalent oversight of government bureaus.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by mergy »

Here's the concern: 1. Everyone thinks Microsoft needs a rethink. 2. Ballmer and others inside Microsoft think they did that and just need to execute on it (devices first, etc.) 3. This guy helped develop the rethink that is in-process.

Any external candidates would have had to buy-in to the restructure already started but not fully executed under Ballmer. Since he was theoretically part of the changes started with Ballmer, he will continue the same agenda.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by usingpond »

swashboon wrote: post #105
Udo wrote: post #79

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> You must not work in the corporate world. That's an interesting assumption. > Microsoft has a massive foothold in enterprise There is nothing in my comment to suggest otherwise. On a meta note, I've been getting these "corrections" a lot here on HN lately, I'm just not sure why that's happening. Am I just too sensitive? Should I be more explicit in my comments? I'm not being touchy, I'd really like to know. > I do…

> I can't even remember when I last used any MS product > Microsoft has a massive foothold in enterprise > You must not work in the corporate world You said you never interact with MS products, those products have a massive foothold in the corporate world, therefore you probably do not work in the corporate world. If you are doing corporate work, not just software development (though even that too) in a corporate set…

Well, count me outside that norm too. I work in a pretty corporate environment and nobody here uses Microsoft stuff. In fact, I've never worked anywhere where the vast majority of people weren't on a Mac.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by xmus »

this new dude is going to do GREAT! ;)

- looks like a Nerd (i mean the background, glasses and the sweat shit - i mean SHIRT)

- don't need to sound racist but the dude is born in India! [20+ years and still has the accent]

- and FINALLY, i can't stress this enough: the page introducing him looks like the iPhone5 page!

PS: zoom out of the page as much as possible and his head get cut-off (the last image in the bio section) - love the background btw

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by mason240 »

ebbv wrote: post #89
leobelle wrote: post #20

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I'm not sure what you mean by your reply.

It means he's one of those white racists who doesn't think he's racist.

I read it as the above person being a SJW who has a problem with Nadella being "white on the inside."

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by Touche »

ygra wrote: post #34
leobelle wrote: post #30

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

I'd take PowerShell over bash any day. If you mean the console window, that's completely independent of the applicating running inside both on Unix-likes and Windows and admittedly there are things to improve. However, there are ConEmu, Console2 and others which by now work really, really well.

They're not completely independent on Windows. That's why all of the attempts to make a better Windows console ultimately fail.
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