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How Satya Nadella Has Changed Microsoft In 3 Months
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#22He convinced developers to create more apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone by offering them what is known as the "Holy Grail" in app development, tools that let an app developer write the app once and easily convert it to all Windows versions (Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox) and also to iOS and Android. That seems like the sort of thing that needs much much more time, and data, to actually judge.
Yep, it's Business Insider, land of bogus lists that they never feel the need to fact check.
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#23Advertisement wall; didn't read. Can anyone mirror it?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
so I was at microsoft until recently and I can say that almost everything on this list had nothing to do with the CEO change outside of him being on the earnings call and the exec changes. at a company as large as microsoft and after the billg era of constant product reviews, most of these decisions were never "ballmer" decisions, they were made by the folks who run their divisions. e.g. changes to windows for the st…
I have my own personal wishlist: http://hal2020.com/2014/03/03/satya-shuffles-his-leadership/... What do you think?
hal berenson is super smart and I think says it best in his reply to your comment[1].
microsoft, just like google and apple and redhat and linkedin and facebook, is a company - it is there to make money for shareholders. what they do to make money and how they do it can be very different and cause disagreements. but I think people don't always think of that when considering tech endeavors, particularly when there is any entry in a market that is free.
[1] http://hal2020.com/2014/03/03/satya-shuffles-his-leadership/...
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#25IMHO one big challenge is missing from the list: He needs to convince the non-US world that a centralised cloud (and internet of things) is a good idea. I can see how that'll work for consumers who need to sync their contacts, but will e.g. foreign governments move from classic Microsoft to Office 365 anytime soon? Does anyone have data on this?
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#26I see most of those steps as being bad for Windows. I guess that has been one reason Ballmer was resistant.
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#27This article was terribly biased. Many of those decisions could go either way. Stock price being up just means the company is being perceived more positively. We'll see how this really plays out.
Stock would go up regardless of any other change. Just getting rid of Ballmer was enough for that.
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#28Advertisement wall; didn't read. Can anyone mirror it?
Don't bother.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have my own personal wishlist: http://hal2020.com/2014/03/03/satya-shuffles-his-leadership/... What do you think?
hal berenson is super smart and I think says it best in his reply to your comment[1]. microsoft, just like google and apple and redhat and linkedin and facebook, is a company - it is there to make money for shareholders. what they do to make money and how they do it can be very different and cause disagreements. but I think people don't always think of that when considering tech endeavors, particularly when there is…
Well, at least some of this stuff was unethical, for example OOXML.
This wishlist was partly inspired by this comment BTW: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7281319
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#30He convinced developers to create more apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone by offering them what is known as the "Holy Grail" in app development, tools that let an app developer write the app once and easily convert it to all Windows versions (Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox) and also to iOS and Android. That seems like the sort of thing that needs much much more time, and data, to actually judge.
>all Windows versions
Except the most popular one, apparently: Windows 7.