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Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by cmelbye »

pjspycha wrote: post #129
skywhopper wrote: post #71

I hope the new CEO has the courage and the power to set out a vision and stick to it for more than just a few years in a row. Microsoft under Ballmer has been a study in short attention span. Changing themes, names, and directions every three to five years. When I was a Windows sysadmin back in the day, it was incredibly frustrating to build anything on the Microsoft platform because by the time you wrapped your brai…

Microsoft is often being thumbed as being thickheaded and stubborn as well as unable to be flexible and quick enough to change with the market. "Short attention span" is definitely something new.

Are those mutually exclusive? Couldn't they miss a trend and then eventually bring it to market late, and then change their minds about it shortly afterwards?

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by nailer »

ygra wrote: post #146
Touche wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the #1 thing Microsoft needs to do in order to right itself is become a platform that developers love, which isn't the case today. Becoming fully posix compliant would be a great start to that.

They've been there and no one used it.

IIRC (old Windows NT4 MCSE here) POSIX subsystem never had access to TCPIP, which made it pointless. It was a sales point, rather than a genuinely useful subsystem.

That said, I think OSs are irrelevant: people are happy to pay for apps, cloud hosting etc and MS are happy to provide it to them, Windows or not, for money.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by natch »

I still feel like I don't know who this guy is. I'm sure he's awesome but a lot is left out. The MS official bio stuff says he has a family, has worked for MS for a long time, has some degrees, and loves cricket. But what has he been doing at MS for 22 years? What roles has he had?

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by npmanag »

shadowfox wrote: post #117
rbanffy wrote: post #101

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Another way you can read it is with a comparison with Stephen Elop and Rick Belluzzo. Could he have intentionally mis-managed OS/2 leaving the space open for Windows 3, being then rewarded by a position at Microsoft's board? I know nothing about his career or his decisions WRT the OS/2 product, but, after having a closer look at the other two, a pattern of executive placement as an offensive weapon starts to form. ed…

> I know nothing about his career, but, after having a closer look at the other two, a pattern of executive placement as an offensive weapon starts to form. Good Lord, that is some serious speculation :)

Reading your parent poster's HN about page will show the reason.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by moron4hire »

ebbv wrote: post #94
moron4hire wrote: post #41

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He is probably a professional who understands how business works and doesn't think anything about it.

It's all well and good to recognize that he clearly hasn't let his personal feelings about his past project's destruction hinder his career. That's an admirable quality in him and worth noting. It's another thing to pretend he's a robot and has no feelings on the matter, which is what you're implying. I think the original question is a valid one. Clearly he would have thoughts on the matter and they may be interestin…

Or perhaps it's not as big of a deal to him now as it is to you.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by npmanag »

r0h1n wrote: post #44
chollida1 wrote: post #2

The bigger news here might be that Bill Gates has stepped down from his role as Chairman of the board! Although this has been rumored to happen for some time, its still a big "changing of the guard" step for Microsoft. Good luck to Bill in his new roll on the Board as "Founder and Technology Advisor".

Kara Swisher was totally on the ball on this, both about Bill Gates stepping down as well as playing a more active role: http://recode.net/2014/01/31/heres-why-bill-gates-would-step...

Satyas public interview with Om Malik is also interesting as he talks about the future of technology.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Hiss2EkE

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by nailer »

dserban wrote: post #165
cygwin98 wrote: post #59

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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.

"Once open-source gets good enough, you'd be crazy to compete with it." -Larry Ellison Any startup that sets out to recreate Photoshop would also compete with GIMP and Pixelmator.

Pixelmator's proprietary, and can't run on non OS X ATM due to reliance on, IIRC, CoreGraphics or similar. If they recreated those libraries on other platforms they may have a PS competitor.

GIMP is poor quality.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by moistgorilla »

adamt wrote: post #160

I'd never thought I'd say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again. Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presence in the Internet and mobile worlds are now pretty limited and leaving the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry. Satya has done a good job with Azure, and it will be i…

I will switch to windows if they make it as easy to develop on as it is on unix. Maybe have a fully supported unix commandline emulator?

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by sdegutis »

adamt wrote: post #160

I'd never thought I'd say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again. Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presence in the Internet and mobile worlds are now pretty limited and leaving the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry. Satya has done a good job with Azure, and it will be i…

From a technical standpoint, I'd love to see Microsoft starting to gain more traction in the developer world. Coming from Java and Objective-C, I'm pretty excited about C# and .NET, which seem much friendlier towards us developers.

Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

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Post by sremani »

mason240 wrote: post #139
ebbv wrote: post #89

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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."

He is son of an IAS officer, he is part of Indian Elite. But coming to US in 80s and making to University of Chicago means he is a real deal.
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