They're definitely sending more marketing people to post on reddit and Hackernews.
Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many people don't know what office is at this point?
The standalone Office suite and Office 365 are two entirely different beasts I would say.
Oh, you'd like it to be that simple wouldn't you?
Office is both a standalone product and an optional subset of Office 365.
Oh and if your Office 365 license is just standard but you have an individual license for Visio or Publisher then you can have Office installed locally with Office 365 integrate except for those individual licenses that you have install separately and aren't integrated.
And then there's client versioning because licenses could be perpetual, instance, instance or prior.
I could keep going....
All that being said, Microsoft has made efforts with 365 to fix these issues and the abolishing of the Sales Silo can only help matters.
Re: Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
#63I'm reading this from my linux laptop running firefox. my colleagues use macs. I don't think microsoft is gaining anything. nothing against the guy but perhaps its too little too late.
Microsoft has shifted focus from the laptop to the cloud. And they are most definitely gaining there. You're just measuring the wrong thing.
Microsoft has no product for private cloud. You're sure about the measure?
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#64Try this: Google "Office 365" The first result just says "Email". The second result says "Office 365 login" I'm not an internet dunce, but this is just bad user-experience. Why not have a modern landing page that tells me a bit about the product, it's price and what I can expect from it? Why is the first result a login page? I've been using Google Docs almost exclusively for work now. I've ditched Word completely. I…
One of the problems Microsoft has that others don't is brand confusion. They like to ride on their own coat tails so distinct and unique products that are completely unrelated are often called the same thing. What do you call Microsoft's personal email client? Outlook. What do you call Microsoft's web based personal email service? Outlook. What do you call Microsoft's enterprise email client? Outlook. What do you cal…
Good lord, the brand confusion.
I work with Microsoft's enterprise instant messaging/unified communications platform. It used to be called Lync, which, whatever, meh, it's a name. When Microsoft acquired Skype, they decided to rename the next iteration of Lync, Skype for Business. Skype and Skype for Business are two completely different products, running on top of different protocols that just barely inter-operate. It's absurd how much confusion this rebranding has caused.
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#65Interesting article, IBM seems the same, Sales and everything else. Maybe this is a relic of old apex predators that are past their age.
You can throw Cisco, Oracle, HP, and just about any other enterprise company on that list.
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#66I've always said sales (and marketing) was Microsoft's biggest problem. The are finally starting to be cool again as the engineers take over. The silo between Windows and development (Azure, .net etc) needs to come down fully to fix Sinofsky's mess too. We're still left with a desktop OS UI with huge animated icons designed for a phone even though they've now given up on the phone market anyway. They gave up too easi…
We used Windows phones at my last place. I would say that the biggest problem for corporate users is the confusion between Azure AD accounts and Microsoft accounts (we didn't manage the phones in any way). It was really hard to explain to users why they had to register a new account at Microsoft when they already logged in to Office 365 daily.
I have at least three different Microsoft accounts, between individual, MSDN, and Office365 variants. All of them use the same email address. I never know which account I'm going to get logged into, and I've seen some really fun OAuth redirect loops when the cookies get scrambled.
Supposedly, it's possible to link accounts, to resolve some of this clusterage, but it doesn't seem to work, or I haven't sprinkled enough chicken blood about or performed the process in the hour of the wolf under during a blue moon...
Re: Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft has shifted focus from the laptop to the cloud. And they are most definitely gaining there. You're just measuring the wrong thing.
Microsoft has no product for private cloud. You're sure about the measure?
Microsoft have tons of tools for private cloud? Including the upcoming ability deploy the azure platform to your own machines.
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#68I was a Windows user for a long time. 5 years ago I switched to OS X, because I think it's closer to the deployment environment I use as a dev. However what OS X did ( when they killed the old one - MacOS 9 and rewrote the whole thing on UNIX based kernel ) was the single greatest move, which I think pays off even these days. This is what I hope should happen with Windows. They should decide on POSIX kernel and compl…
There are lots of flaws with the POSIX models. NT's creater (cutler) fixed a lot of them. Your dismive attitude is probably due to ignorance instead deep knowledge of what the NT kernel is capable of.
Just a few days ago there was post about how NT's IO by default is more performant.
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#69Writing software(GNU) != Selling software(Microsoft/Oracle) != Selling support(RedHat) != Selling solutions(IBM) != Selling gadgets(Apple) != Selling advertisements(Google/Facebook/Twitter) != Selling consulting(Accenture) != Body shopping(TCS/Infosys/Wipro/HCL/Cognizant)
Re: Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem
#70Try this: Google "Office 365" The first result just says "Email". The second result says "Office 365 login" I'm not an internet dunce, but this is just bad user-experience. Why not have a modern landing page that tells me a bit about the product, it's price and what I can expect from it? Why is the first result a login page? I've been using Google Docs almost exclusively for work now. I've ditched Word completely. I…
One of the problems Microsoft has that others don't is brand confusion. They like to ride on their own coat tails so distinct and unique products that are completely unrelated are often called the same thing. What do you call Microsoft's personal email client? Outlook. What do you call Microsoft's web based personal email service? Outlook. What do you call Microsoft's enterprise email client? Outlook. What do you cal…
Well, technically speaking the web based ones are called Outlook Web Access. And I don't feel there is confusion. How is it different with Microsoft that Outlook is Outlook, from how with Google Apps Gmail is Gmail? Just like with Outlook there are enterprise versions of Gmail too. Is it feature parity?