Can someone in the know shed some light on how a CEO of a corporation this big gets selected, from searching for and vetting candidates to the competition involved amongst nominees vying for the position? I imagine it's less about an admissions-type board reviewing applicants' credentials and accomplishments and more about years and years of strategic positioning, favors, and relationship building with people that matter. Or a bit of both.
Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
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#192I'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?
You're conflating "easy" with "familiar".
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#193Satya Nadella: His first interview as CEO of Microsoft
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#194Just asking, how can a new CEO change Microsoft's directions. Or What suggestions would you give Satya, if you were to meet him today?
I'd say, from my armchair: take a long hard look at what's really happening out there, step out of your bubble. Stop this ridiculous attitude towards competitors and open source, at least long enough to see what they have to offer. Get your people some Macs, get your server people exposed to some Linux, get them some iPhones and iPads and Android devices, and make them see why you've been losing ground. Those competi…
It has always seemed to me that Microsoft treats every product, company, or standard that is not theirs as if they were direct competition.
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#195I love the quote "Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation". The most profound words I've read all day.
What would our industry be like if it respects tradition? Less reinventing the wheel every decade?
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#196Interesting that they use Modernizr and normalize.css for the web page instead of their own css/js code.
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#197I'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…
Why? What good would a strong Microsoft provide us? What void would that fill? We've been there, done that and frankly, I don't care to go back. They abused their power when they had it and I have no intent of giving it back to them to give them another crack at it.
No, I much prefer today's world of Google, Apple, Samsung and FOSS in all its myriad forms battling it out. There's more developer frameworks than ever available to us. More languages. More everything.
No. I don't want to go back.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why are all of them column based? You cant arbitrarily resize a console window in 2014?
Sure you can! Right click on the console window bar (top) and look in Settings. You will need to increase the horizontal buffer size or something like that.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> 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. When your company reaches a certain size, auditors and such will put an end to that. "This gets backed up where?" "Where's your antivirus?" "Why aren't you using _STANDARD_PRODUCTS_?" etc
Your auditors are asking about specific software??? Ours never did. Processes, yes, specific brands? No way.
Yep we only install virus scanners at email gateways to make the exchange servers not die. The virus scanners are for windows, never had any auditor for sox or pci ask about software, sounds like a shit auditor.
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#200Can someone in the know shed some light on how a CEO of a corporation this big gets selected, from searching for and vetting candidates to the competition involved amongst nominees vying for the position? I imagine it's less about an admissions-type board reviewing applicants' credentials and accomplishments and more about years and years of strategic positioning, favors, and relationship building with people that ma…
> Can someone in the know shed some light on how a CEO of a corporation this big gets selected ...
It's easy to summarize: the stockholders trust the corporation's board, and the board trusts its selected candidate. There are very few written requirements, most of the process is based on the judgment and experience of the board members -- which is why they're sitting on the board.
> ... years and years of strategic positioning, favors, and relationship building with people that matter.
That's accurate. But the bottom line is that if the candidate doesn't work out, the board's credibility evaporates -- that part of the process is also ruthless and unwritten.