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"Sent from my iPhone" xD
Go back to Reddit. You don't belong here if you can't make an intelligent comment. Sorry.
Pretty weak when you compare it with Steve Job's “Fuck Michael Dell” talk when he came back to Apple in 1997. http://lilly.tumblr.com/post/11230723028/steve-jobs
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It is humbling because you are elected by a group of your peers to lead. It also gives implicit credit to all the people that helped make him successful. Leadership is not zero sum and it doesn't follow specific rules. If anything the rules of promotion are codified by practice and not necessarily logical and prescribed but in general most people aspire to be fair and merit based.
> It is humbling because you are essentially elected by a group of your peers to lead. I don't understand this. It would be more humbling if, being at the top of your game and fully expecting to get the job, you were turned down for the CEO position. Or they demote you to a lower position. /That/ would be humbling. You're humlbed when you suddenly are forced to re-evaluate your self-worth after it's made clear it doe…
As an ex-MSFT employee and somebody who actually got a chance to talk to Satya I found the letter to be very true to his personality. Excited to see what he does in Redmond.
Is he a conservative type of manager who will try to come-up with completely new kind of products or someone who will keep chasing Google in Apple in what they do best?
WinPhone7 was a great product on paper - still is - that was released half-baked missing a great number of features that consumers expected to be standard. It was further undermined when Microsoft decided to cut the early adopters and run (WP7 phones that never got the WP7.5 update).
Hell, even the much-maligned Kin I think was a great idea. In an era with stupidly expensive data plans, the idea was to come up with a social-media-only (Twitter, Facebook, SMS) device coupled with a kid-compatible cheap monthly plan, based on the existing expertise of Danger. Then they decided to rewrite the whole tech stack, pushed the product way out of its launch window, and lost out on the core offering: cheap plans. What ended up launching was nowhere near what was envisioned.
I believe Windows 8 and the merging of touch and desktop was, and still is, a great idea. A platform that can seamlessly transform between mobile and desktop contexts can be incredibly powerful and reflects the combination of MS's traditional strengths in work-products and the newer consumer mobile space. Of course, the execution there was well off the mark - Metro was foisted upon the desktop context and was strictly inferior to what it tried to replace, and key productivity tools were removed in the name of unification.
MS gets the big picture, but they keep fucking up the details. Here's hoping Nadella can turn this around.
Oh they are going to ditch Windows and Secure Boot and help develop Linux for mainstream users? This must be the news of the year!
Every day they continue requiring Secure Boot on Windows RT, this lie continues to get bigger.
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Go back to Reddit. You don't belong here if you can't make an intelligent comment. Sorry.
If you think HN comments are anything more than Reddit comments dressed up in ostentation then you would be well-served by paying more careful attention to the actual content of what you read in the future.
"Who am I? I am 46. I’ve been married for 22 years and we have 3 kids." -> Who cares?
Are you American? I was wondering about this too. As a Frenchman, I had the same reaction as you, but I think Americans care a lot about this. I've been told for example that in the US it would be completely impossible for a president to be elected if he didn't had a solid marriage and family. I find those cultural differences fascinating
That may be true now, but there have indeed been unmarried Presidents. Just saying.
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Go back to Reddit. You don't belong here if you can't make an intelligent comment. Sorry.
If you think HN comments are anything more than Reddit comments dressed up in ostentation then you would be well-served by paying more careful attention to the actual content of what you read in the future.
> Today is a very humbling day for me. The first sentence of the email, statement that seems entirely appropriate given the circumstances. Nonetheless, I find it curious that we expect people who reach the highest levels of accomplishment to describe those accomplishments as humbling. It seems natural to us for someone promoted to the heights of their profession, such as Satya Nadella in this case, or the winner of a…
Don't read into it too much.
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> Today is a very humbling day for me. When I read that I knew this guy would fail as MS CEO. It's a proper jungle out there and a humble Indian guy will be eaten alive by the aggressive confident westerners.
I think most will ignore your comment for what it is but I want to respond. He didn't become CEO because he played it nice. I'm sure he's been as aggressive and mean when he's needed to be to advance himself and his work. It's humbling because out of the many many top candidates he got the job. It's humbling to be considered at that level among your peers and be picked. I would venture to say that he mixes the best o…