MS $2.5B acquisition to attract youths?
Why Nadella's Second Year as Microsoft CEO Will Be a Lot Harder
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#12"He has changed the way engineering teams are structured, largely eliminating testers to speed software releases,... " What could possibly go wrong? Ok.. the sentence continues : "and adding data scientists and designers to the engineering teams to ensure all features are informed by rigorous testing and good design principles. " I don't quite understand, how can data scientists help to catch bugs? Automated testing?
It's a confused sentence, but I think it means he removed "testing" as a separate group of people, and made "testing" something inherent to the design process.
I hope that is what it means, because the alternative would be bizarre.
That said, I think Nadella will do a good job, and that many ideas that Ballmer had were starting to show their promise.
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#13"He has changed the way engineering teams are structured, largely eliminating testers to speed software releases,... " What could possibly go wrong? Ok.. the sentence continues : "and adding data scientists and designers to the engineering teams to ensure all features are informed by rigorous testing and good design principles. " I don't quite understand, how can data scientists help to catch bugs? Automated testing?
I actually think this is addressing a known or implied strength of Google - data driven decisions that effect design.
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#14I feel there is good and bad. I am glad he moved to a more data driven and agile culture. He is also empowering engineers in his organization. The bad is that they all suffer from the windows mindset and spend a great deal of time building for windows. With all the patents they own they literally own android and yet they are not willing to allow android apps on windows phone or surface pro 3. It feels like a slow march towards irrelevance.
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#15MS $2.5B acquisition to attract youths?
The Mojang acquisition was likely a very smart move. I remember the day it happened was the same day that Apple announced the Apple Watch. While I was aware of the Watch, my kids were completely unaware of it, but both they and their friends were very aware that Microsoft had purchased Mojang. They were very concerned about it and it was the topic of much conversation that night.
If MS is able to utilize the popularity of Minecraft in the <18 set to their advantage...
Re: Why Nadella's Second Year as Microsoft CEO Will Be a Lot Harder
#16I feel there is good and bad. I am glad he moved to a more data driven and agile culture. He is also empowering engineers in his organization. The bad is that they all suffer from the windows mindset and spend a great deal of time building for windows. With all the patents they own they literally own android and yet they are not willing to allow android apps on windows phone or surface pro 3. It feels like a slow mar…
It's not really a case of "allowing" Android apps. It would take a monumental engineering effort.
Re: Why Nadella's Second Year as Microsoft CEO Will Be a Lot Harder
#17I feel there is good and bad. I am glad he moved to a more data driven and agile culture. He is also empowering engineers in his organization. The bad is that they all suffer from the windows mindset and spend a great deal of time building for windows. With all the patents they own they literally own android and yet they are not willing to allow android apps on windows phone or surface pro 3. It feels like a slow mar…
It's not really a case of "allowing" Android apps. It would take a monumental engineering effort.
Why is it monumental? Java runs on windows already and they are third parties like Bluestacks who have demonstrated running android apps on Windows.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really a case of "allowing" Android apps. It would take a monumental engineering effort.
Why is it monumental? Java runs on windows already and they are third parties like Bluestacks who have demonstrated running android apps on Windows.
Java runs on Windows, but not Windows Phone, which would be the main target of Android app functionality.
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#19"He has changed the way engineering teams are structured, largely eliminating testers to speed software releases,... " What could possibly go wrong? Ok.. the sentence continues : "and adding data scientists and designers to the engineering teams to ensure all features are informed by rigorous testing and good design principles. " I don't quite understand, how can data scientists help to catch bugs? Automated testing?
This is probably why so many of the Windows Updates this year broke critical things, especially for enterprise. I feel Nadella is taking a "cheaper, faster" approach which is fine and dandy in the otherwise non-critical mobile space (mobile users are used to being treated like crap and having buggy releases) but in enterprise there's simply a higher standard of quality. I'm not sure what this means for MS. At our sho…
Those are good points worth reading. What you describe is very much the feared outcome of removing SDETs before SDEs are ready to deliver tested and solid products in the new model. I have personally not suffered any troubles, but your experience does not surprise me one bit.
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#20"He has changed the way engineering teams are structured, largely eliminating testers to speed software releases,... " What could possibly go wrong? Ok.. the sentence continues : "and adding data scientists and designers to the engineering teams to ensure all features are informed by rigorous testing and good design principles. " I don't quite understand, how can data scientists help to catch bugs? Automated testing?
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