Just asking, how can a new CEO change Microsoft's directions.
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What suggestions would you give Satya, if you were to meet him today?
Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
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Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
#62If he focuses the entirety of MS on cloud and mobile, while offering some level of innovation, he will have done a good job. I think the real challenge is how do you make a company whose flagships are non-mobile and non-cloud products like Office and Windows go mobile and cloud? Those are massive institutional forces of inertia.
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#63In Bill Gates' video, at 0:28, does he laugh just a little bit as he says "we took advantage of the internet" when listing their historical innovations?
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A step down from chairman, but a step up in involvement. Gates says he will be "substantially increasing the time that I spend at the company."
I hope that this is just doublespeak to reassure people who think Gates is important to Microsoft's future success. Personally, I think both Microsoft and the world would be better off if Gates stepped away completely and focussed all of his efforts on the Gates Foundation's work.
I understood the Foundation's primary problem to be figuring out how to efficiently spend all of their money they are required to spend every year without accidentally funding Al Qaeda. Does Gates have to be around for that?
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#65The most interesting thing on this page is that the videos are hosted on YouTube.
this might be a good sign.
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Man, a fully functional supported bash-like terminal on Windows would be heaven sent.
I'd take bash over PowerShell any day. The whole Windows philosophy makes building stuff out of disconnected smaller parts harder than it needs to be.
Exactly - the beauty of bash is that it's accessible
Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
#67The most interesting thing on this page is that the videos are hosted on YouTube.
this might be a good sign.
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#68It looks like Microsoft is starting to head in a better direction given their backtracking on "metro" style for desktop applications. I hope they develop more software for non-Windows devices. I really wouldn't mind using Microsoft software on non-Windows. I only use Windows for testing and gaming. I wish Nadella and Microsoft luck, and hope they make a real turn around. As a side note it is also exciting to see some…
I find it particularly interesting that they highlighted his work with *Nix systems in his early career. I don't want to draw any conclusions, but I have a good feeling about that.
I found it interesting they didn't mention anything about his career at MS since being on the NT team in 92.
Re: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
A step down from chairman, but a step up in involvement. Gates says he will be "substantially increasing the time that I spend at the company."
I hope that this is just doublespeak to reassure people who think Gates is important to Microsoft's future success. Personally, I think both Microsoft and the world would be better off if Gates stepped away completely and focussed all of his efforts on the Gates Foundation's work.
I think you're missing the point that Gates will be spending more time at Microsoft to lend gravitas to Nadella amongst the other Microsoft managers he beat out for the job. I imagine once they get the message and give the guy a chance to get his sea legs, Gates will back away.
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#70There's something deeply symbolic about watching those enthusiastic people doing their Sorkin walks for the camera through the vast and completely empty halls of the Microsoft offices (or is it a museum, I can't tell). By the numbers, Microsoft is still incredibly relevant. At the same time, I can't even remember when I last used any MS product. It's not a boycott, there are simply no points where their stuff interse…
You must not work in the corporate world. Microsoft has a massive foothold in enterprise: email, instant messaging (lync), excel, word, visio, project, even sharepoint and those are just the pieces you can see not to mention whats going in the backend.
Being one of the only Mac users in my office I constantly have to find work arounds for everything. Sadly they will be relevant for a long time we have almost 30,000 people using windows and they wont be learning anything new for a long time if ever.
I do hope the changing of the guard will help microsoft to build better products that integrate with OS's beside windows.