A fine figure, but one that only points to a third of a billion dollars or so in revenue. They only needed to work on it! You're dreaming. But, they still had a base of faithful users that they have completely abandonded which was absolutly the worst thing they could've done. I'm really glad I left when I did now cause I would seriously be pissed having spent all this time hoping in something Microsoft never delivered. And Joe B, I think there was one thing you missed while you were trying everything to incent developers: committing to the platform and sticking with it. He retrenched Windows Phones exactly when it was gaining momentum with Lumia 930 and Lumia 1520. On the immediate, serious side though - without mobile, their hopes for growing the end user - UWP - developer ecosystem is now down to, what - low to middle end Windows "S" devices? @blue steel, But as noted by NOT having a precesence in Mobile with a OS that cleanly integrates into the PC, they are failing. The culprit is Microsoft, The culprit is Microsoft for marketing and manufacturing phones. While Mr Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, was declared the "Person of the Year" by the Financial Times, Mr Pichai was named the CEO of Alphabet, the principal company which owns Google, of which Mr. That works out to 35M discounted (to free) phones. Roll your sleeves up and put in some work Nadella/Microsoft.. Because if you can't make windows phone work..Then I wonder.. what cat was riding a fire breathing unicorn? (No, I haven't timed for how long, but but more that 5 minutes. All about the same. Due to the recent news of Microsoft team members saying they have switched over to another mobile OS and that Micosoft has finally admitted given up on Windows Mobilewas the last straw for me. Sounds alot like myself Matt. But neither has Windows on PC, albeit some can run it. Maybe we need Bill Gates to lead microsoft again..I hate CEOs that try to show profit by downsizing rather than truly growng the business. This so reminds me of when I had my Palm Pre. So overall mobile operating system revenues are not much more than 1% percent of overall software revenues, and while it is still not small, you know there are also those 99%. After going through a frustrating week of having to decide which phone to move to because my 1520 is officially dying and recieving news that I would essentially be wasting money by buying another Windows Mobile phone as they are pulling the plug, this is cold comfort. Now is their communication process and the way how they approach consumers ok? (And Im always amused by my colleagues when the 18 Things Satya Nadella Must Do Now to Save Microsoft phase begins.). \'he\'s got strong preferences,\' says satya. With MSFT once spearheading this path it has let many of us to a cul-de-sac. So give them a fair listen. So their sole purpose was to select the highest priority ones and focus development on that. Mobile is the future, and not just for consumers. On top of that, all of Apples 100 million phones sold in 6 months are still in use 2 years later. Plus, Win32 apps are running in emulation. Nadella's greatest weakness may be his lack of consumer market experience. Once we turn our backs on Microsoft - no matter how hard that decision is to take - there won't be any going back, unfortunately. Making room for it in your Zune memory drawer? In his own words, he needed to change the rules of the game. The high brass at MSFT has to be replaced. I also felt pretty betrayed owning am Xbox One original. It's pretty simple, we all dream about making it big and changing the world for the better or if you're a materialistic person, making alot of money. Yes. Microsoft would then always continue developing for iOS and Android, but the first party app as a matter of example, always would provide the best experience on the Windows based devices that also ran APK binaries. Weaknesses come from lack or absence of five key resources & capabilities - activities & processes, past experiences and successes, physical resources such as land, building, human resources, and financial resources . And it looks to me like a huge mistake. The entire current management team and board need to be shot. Though AR and voice-controlled computing may be a big part of our future, the phone is still going to be the bridge to that future. The problem with the thinking by Nadella and company is that they just assume that MS can abandon a platform and its users and developers, and those people will then just circle in a "holding pattern" until the company announces their Next Big Thing. As is, whatever they do, they will do without OEM support at first, which could be tricky. However, he didn't think the knowledge he gained was sufficient to develop his abilities and went to the United States to learn computer science. Not because of the content and information but mainly because its just sad. Even with this entire WM10 debacle we never got a clear statement aside from tweets from Joe, nor did we get any sort of apology for leading consumers on. Until then we can enjoy the many new Universal apps on our superior Lumia 950 (XL) phones. Trying to spin off either product into separate teams or (shudder) businessesis a recipe for chaos. Who's going to buy a mixed reality headset? the next shiny object they are loseing attention span with is continuum I'm sure apple and google are going o thrive wit it And with out a phone your AI is not going to be in too many peoples hands . WP8 was suposed to be a transtion from WP7 and shed all of the Widows Ce core code from the platform but they lost all the basic functionality of WP7. - Superior product and services quality can help Nadella Satya to further increase its market share as the current customer are extremely loyal to it. At least I have noticed this and I was researching and then found out like Media agenciesgetpaid for biased news. To assume, you can abandon a cause multiple times, burning not only consumers, but your OEMs and try to shift to conversation to the "future", means you are still out of touch. Let's look at the last 5-7 years. And I'm going to get my hardware partners to build devices too. He didn't want to have purchased Nokia and it was his intention to crater the whole enterprise. Should I take the bait yet again? Bing is much more than just a website - it's the search infrastructure and tech at the heart of MS Cloud computing. It is not going to matter what they come up with in the future. Six challenges for Microsoft as the Satya Nadella era begins, His CEO speech: Reading between the software lines, New Microsoft CEO must focus on partners, too, What's next for the Microsoft insiders who didn't get the CEO nod. Groove was shut down (and even though they say they'll refund you 120% of outstanding value they're refusing to honor this with me as I have unused codes that have apparently "expired"- codes are valid though and the T&C's mention nothing about an export date). While 100 million phones sounds impressive, that is over what time span? I will never trust Microsoft again in the mobile area. Apps were coming over fairly regularly and MS put a lot of energy into its Xamarin purchase and development. "Leaders think their . Walk back the decision while you still can. And users on Android and iOS simply replace MS services with Google's and Apple's. Nearly 30 percent, to be precise. Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset "referred as Nadella Satya in this analysis " is a Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study used for What is he planning to do to correct this? The promise of one core finally, seemless intergaion with a mobile experience that should have been prefferable on this platform for at least first party apps along with developer interest of intergrating the same code across multiple platforms. It doesn't make any sense to support something useless anymore. Nadella has said from the get go that Microsoft is committed to mobile. Mobile phones are not phones. Maybe what MS really needs is a complete corporate leadership flush out. Sorry to tell him, to late. I ended up with a Lumia 950 running Windows 10 Mobile. They should consider knocking Nokia's door again to deal a place in their handsets. I highly doubt there were only 20 mil users seeing as I personally know loads who has bought into the Windows ecosystem with no input from me or someone like me. Just bought an Idol 4S - beautiful phone - might be sending it back. Thank you, Brett. It is a crying shame that MS keeps coming out with innovative products but fails to follow up on developing the products. Yeah, lets abandon our user base, promise the moon and deliver dirt and then hope they come running back to us. It's with a growth mindset, Nadella has changed the image of Microsoft to being super cool again. In a recent report on shifting workplace attitudes, the Microsoft CEO commented that some bosses are skeptical of work-from-home culture, reports Windows Central. Cortana on WP was probably the best virtual assitant, rarely giving me any problems with what I needed. Satya Narayana Nadella became Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2014. This is a more general risk, but a portion of Microsofts recovery thus far is due to macroeconomic conditions outside of its control. New Delhi: As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's son Zain, who was born with Cerebral Palsy (CP), died on Tuesday (March 1) at the age of 26, this rare congenital disorder that he suffered from, has created buzz.While Cerebral means related to the brain, Palsy means weakness or problems with using the muscles.Hence, Cerebral Palsy is a group of disorders that affect movement and muscle tone or . Quit being so stupid and open All devices to All carriers, Idiots. Nokia, when whole, was not a particularly profitable company. I wonder if Nadella has considered returning some of his pay and bonuses as contrition for his "mistakes"? Microsoft had one drink too many and roughed your checkbook up a little. They were right to focus on the cloud and productivity. the corporate policy has always been if we don't own the code we won't let you play on our devices. Windowsphone never delivered Microsoft Pay but Google and Apple did deliver mobile payments and are exploiting a technology Microsoft have missed. Windowsphone was not about phone. On their mobiles. OEM's wisely took the choice of the free OS over a paid one. They had more than a fair chance, and now they are done. For once I would like to hear a tech journalist that focuses on Microsoft products ask that one question. Very good comment @squire777and agree to most of it. I've owned Zune/Groove, WinMo 6.x, Lumia 900, 640, Yezz Billy 8, and Now Lumia 950. I love Windows Mobile for what it is but I am willing to give other things a shot with the caveat that I am going to very picky about the phone I get. Jason. While we had blips of great service, products and attention, ultimately it came back down and we went back to finding proper solutions. So market share never took off - regardless of the fact that the UI and overall experience was (and remains) far superior to the hunt-peck-oogle idiom of iPhone (which is like a nursery school toy) and Android (which sucks electrons faster than a Tesla at full speed). No one cares about that. OS run on devices and are device restrictive (can only run the os for which it was intended) devices cost money that includes royalties and use of the os (the things you agree to when OSes are first setup). Great! Frankly, I don't trust MS any longer. and the world wide carriers will be afraid to deal with Microsoft smart phones under Satya Nadella's leadership. What "unlock shareholder. As much as he had to pull the plug on Balmer's bad decisions. Im not sure its possible to rationalize the existing licensing schemes for on-premises software (Windows Server, Windows desktop, Office, and all the management tools and add-ons). He has sank this company and is now trying to save his ass. The people who run HDM were the same people within NOKIA and tried to push the company to make those X platform android devices. Those are very different things, actually they have nothing in common. Apple and Google leak like seives and MS know they keep their cache with the big reveals. For the company to completely ignore the passionate pleas from people on this site who merely want to use their products on a mobile device shows arrogance and contempt. Not to mention, updates for Win 10 & applications are poorly done and tested, which makes them a dice roll every time, as you cross your fingers that nothing breaks on your systems. And that means Google and Apple (and maybe Amazon) are going to be there, stealing what they can from Hololens and MS will lose its consumer business altogether. Zain Nadella, 26, was born with cerebral palsy. 2023 ZDNET, A Red Ventures company. Plus if they do come back withthe new OSI hope they don't get rid of the LIVE Tiles, but they need to have a setting forjust Icons for those people who do not likeLive Tiles. And I was told I didn't know what I was talking about when I have repeatedly said this for the past two years. And one last thing focusing on one comment I made. Microsoft partners earned an estimated $9.58 in revenue through services and software for every $1 that Microsoft generated in 2020a total of $984 billion, according to IDC. Some (Low) percentage would simply not work anyways, depending on how they were written. Six challenges for Microsoft as the Satya Nadella era begins His CEO speech: Reading between the software lines Those are gentle, highly sanitized code words, of course. IBM does it. That doesnt appear to be the case. It is written by Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston and deals with topics in areas such as Organizational Development Leadership, Organizational culture I can honestly say that it is not stress free and definitely not stable. Developers may see it as a new platform, and knowing how MS dumped windows mobile, they are going to be afraid to put any work into software for andromeda, for fear it will be dumped a year or two down the road. At the end of the day we're supposed youse it, but many features are good in potential but are half baked, or even not accessible in many regions and languages. The thing barely had any exclusive games other than the usual Halo,Forza, GOW etc and before you know if we are already on a generation refresh with the One X. But that does not make him good on the PC or a smartphone or understand anything about the consumer. Balmer got it right when he wanted to populate users with inexpensive and fully usable handsets which bumped up the share to 4% world wide and around 15%in Europe only to be divested by Nadella. Time is running out, 8 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with MacOS or Windows, The most exciting phones at MWC 2023 (that you likely can't buy), The top satellite phones and gadgets for reliable off-grid communication, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. How they turned their early lead, and the potential for synergy with Nokia into zilch is truly remarkable. It is actually fairly small, though still offers chances to earn few billions for the operating system company, so it is not something that should be ignored by a big company, just if you ask whether it is normal that other things were priority, yes it is. I got fed up swithed the machine to a Linux OS and got everything working again, but I haven't had a Sony product in my house ever since and I won't. This is the way to go. Windows Phones excellent 2013 was capped by a disappointing fourth quarter sales figure of Lumia Windows Phone handsets. And there are no royalties. "My response is very eastern: We're making great progress, but we should never be done."1 The "lost decade" Just 17 days after founder and technical whizz Bill Gates handed over the reins to Steve Ballmer in 2000, the stock market crashed. Apple is not churning the same 100 million users every 6 months. Not much progress for all your efforts! I love how everyone seems to think Google and apple can conquer every market. Folks Microsoft is a company that gets most of it's income from selling software and services to Enterprrise/Business customers.and to people who sell or and use Desktop PC's. all running on a appstore controlled by Microsoft. But there are certainly opportunities to paint a brighter line between the two sides of the house than weve seen so far. Ask Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, what the most pressing problems are that he is working to solve right now and he will give you two answers. Opportunities can emerge from various factors such as - political developments & policy changes, changes in consumer preferences, technological innovations, economic growth, and increase in consumer disposable income . These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. The windows phone works well for integration to server based sytems, whether they are corporate or personal enterprises. and then, MS release a half baked piece of garbage that they called a smart phone. Nadella grew up in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and studied electrical engineering at Mangalore University (B.Sc., 1988). That's now Nadellas problem to deal with. The point is, Microsoft was WAY behind. (Like gmail instead of outlook mail and calendar). How long before Movies and TV go? Bottom line, if you cannot win the war, change the rules of the game so you can define the battlefield yourself. I really do enjoy windows 10 as the best OS for computers. Again and again, I ran into the same brick wall -- the developers had no confidence that Microsoft would continue to support the platform. Satya Nadella is a CEO who was born in India. "The future of work is not just about technology and tools," he said. The app-gap seemed to be coming to an end with the acquisition of Xamarin as a magic tool to gain developers attention. Ballmer did, but of course short term profits is what share holders think about. DAN HOWLEY: Satya Nadella has been Microsoft's CEO since February, 2014 and chairman of the board since 2021. MS wake up!!! (That means its a corporate-PR approved part of the official narrative.). MBA students will look at it for years to come. Satya cuddling with baby Zain. I'm much less up on news now because the lack of live tiles which would update automagically thruout the day. Sure Cortana is available on the PC, but where is the Cortana IoT integration? Since then Microsoft's developer community have felt jerked around more than they've felt cheered, with a couple of high-profile shifts in development strategy (abandoning Silverlight was the biggestslap, but there have been others). It's that re-affirmed bias that drives most developers to target the platform with a larger base group. Here are some of Satya Nadella's recommended books from the past that are also worth reading. How will Microsoft stay relevant? Without a mobile platform of their own their future is limited if not over. WP7 was a mediocre crap, lacking copy/paste, BT file transfers, no file manager, mediocre email experience, PC sync was a mess especially for exchange stuff. Remove that potential of growth and you lose your major developer incentive. I think MS should learn from google and apple. It's still a devkit not used but anybody relevant. Europe is a 500 million people big market so I don't think that's a small market at all. I'm guessing that the Xbox is next on the chopping block, and I would be shocked if MS releases another console after the One X. Nadella's management decisions are definitely defensible - but I still think a mistake. + Surface RT, and two Surface Pro versions. At the time of his promotion, he was leading Cloud, one of the most important core businesses MS was venturing into. They wouldnt let Tmobile, Sprint and Verizon have a foothold on the devices. With MSFT once spearheading this path it has let many of us to a cul-de-sac. Its up to Nadella to ensure that the Surface project can finally be taken off financial life support and walk under its own steam. Sure, the US wasn't one of those but who cares, parts of the EU were huge, Brazil also if I recall correctly and a few other places. Maybe it's a symptom of their hiring practices and cost cutting, but too many people who work at MS don't actually like the company. When the camera started to fail on the Lumia 950 I thought whether I was going to get it fixed (it was out of warranty) or migrate to Android. Even IF they ship another new phone device with real windows 10 then WHY in earth should the current fan base care? I know because I still have one. My step sister's husband works for Microsoft, and he was stunned to hear I still owned a WP! I could use Cortana to set reminders, appointments, whatever on either my phone or PC, and my PC or phonewould remind me. Nadella had to get that message or they will relegated to be the next IBM as others have said. It's now over, and they will suffer the market consequences for many years to come.