Except if you paid sometimes after accepting agrements, but if you did, please tell us what? It was doomed to failure, and it did fail. That's more than just fanboys. Genius! Here in the UK, Aviva uses an app to do just that, so safer drivers have lower insurance premiums. Now, No ******* thing. What is Nadella going to do about this apparent lack of caring about consumers? 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? Hehe . I like the platform because it does what I need it to do. Lets take a moment instead to focus on what could go wrong for the new CEO. One thing no one mentions on here, is the horrible launch and pulling of the KIN PHONES back in May of 2010 on Verizon. In the course of my day I shall speak to clients. WP7 kept all features from WM6.5? I'm a 20+ year developer, and I had three different windows phones for over 6 years. In todays climate more and more people (ie..consumers) are concerned about loss of privacy, ID theft, and compromise of their personal information whether it is banking or otherwise. Inspirational Motivation. Feel free to connect with us if you need business research. He retrenched Windows Phones exactly when it was gaining momentum with Lumia 930 and Lumia 1520. Microsoft did the same thing. Satya cuddling with baby Zain. What current management fails to get is that they are focused on sub-optimization. Gates got it because he understood to compete in the technical arena you must cover the landscape with product. My bottom line is I wish MS would buy back or pay off what I have left to pay on my 950. Have a full and frank exchange of ideas in the board room. I thought that they knew that mobile is a key sector that they need to conquer by any means. Let's look at the last 5-7 years. You have any data to show any meaningful increase in sales? I am going with Nokia 8 next year. The few million people who owned windows phones I guarantee were Microsoft's biggest fans. Enterprise is everything. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella is an example. Unfortunately Microsoft's lack of focus and inability to market thier own product made this deal seem like a precieved desparate move instead of taking full adavntage of this opprtunity. Windowsphone never delivered Microsoft Pay but Google and Apple did deliver mobile payments and are exploiting a technology Microsoft have missed. He only cares about the income statement today and his bonuses. Some notable recommendations from Microsoft CEO is the book called Mindset, by Carol S. Dweck. Hey Jason, thanks for this article. Current management thinks they cannot lose because of the Windows desktop dominance, but they are wrong because both consumers and enterprises seek intergrated solutions these days. He oversees Microsoft's computer software and hardware products, including Windows, Xbox, Surface, Office 365, and Bing. He adapted the idea to encourage employees to shift from Microsoft's historical "know-it-all" culture to embrace a "learn-it-all" curiosity. I fully expect Amazon to buy MS..sooner than later. Do you need one? Just as Google's Chrome was a trojan horse on Windows, Microsoft needs to build an app(s) on Android and iOS that consumers fall in love with and can't live without. There is a reason why most tech companies are moving into consumer market. 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. Satya decided to scrap it. Obviously this has to be asked and displayed PROMINENTLY. He joined Microsoft in 1992 and became CEO of the company in 2014. WC was giving this guy credit for a lot of Ballmers work! So far, Microsoft has shown good momentum, but Nadella could find himself with a substitute product that cant generate as much cash as its predecessor. "We didn't get networks," he said. It faltered because MS failed to release any new compelling hardware to entice new buyers. Nadella should really just spare us all the yap.. Don't mean nothing if you are not backing it up. For all his many faults, at least Balmer had some inkling of the need to maintain a foothold in the consumer space, even though he did it WRONG by trying to BUY marketshare via the Nokia purchase as opposed to building a MS-owned vertical manufacturing base. They can't even get a Cortana powered speaker off the ground. "First, I believe that, at its most powerful, technology can be a force for good in the world," he says. Why doesn't Microsoft modify Windows 10 to allow you to make phone calls? Or their own apps in the Windows Store. I bought this phone a year ago brand new believing in Microsoft's promise on making those phones if no one else would and that they would invest in the universal app system. PayPal left, Mobile pay lef, weChat left, myfitnesspal left and spottify is on maintenance mode. the fact is Windows smart phones were not selling very well so Microsoft cut back on Windows smart phones.but Microsoft CEO Nadella and other Microsoft execs hinted Microsoft will make a smart phone that does not look like smart phone out there today. He said he saw a world where Personal Interactive Devices (Pcs then), Portable Interactive Devices (a then yet to be made hybrid of mobile phone and PDA), and Social Interactive Devices (TVs then) were only different in the way people interacteed with them. Yes. No amount of money will encourage development, as app development is a recurring cycle between cost, income and relevancy. Nadella should admit he made a mistake and walk back the decision to sacrifice not only Windows Phone, but all the folks who love it. The market research . With MSFT once spearheading this path it has let many of us to a cul-de-sac. A low cost, touch device, similar to the Surface. The four key elements of SWOT analysis are - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats. yeah people just don't understand the problem won't solve by simply having android apps to run on Windows 10. SWOT Analysis stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that Nadella Satya encounters both internally and in macro environment that it operates in. Ha!! Thats my list. Or that employees/consumers with Android or Apple phones are going to adopt MS's AI, MR, Cortana, Edge, etc., etc. Yet they keep making the same mistakes, over and over and over. I am currently in the process of selling my 3 Windows Phones, XBox One, Surface Laptop and Band and I will be switching over to another OS and believe you me I will NOT be downloadiing any apps or software that is associated with Microsoft and I hope many many others follow suite. > How many toy manufactures, production companies (film/tv), IoT. At least they have Azure MS waited way too long to get serious about the mobile platform. What Microsoft lost is more than a windows mobile customer. I thought Game Of Thrones for all its fiction should have taught the lesson better.. The rise was based on hopes that the underlying technology will live up to the prediction by Satya Nadella, the company's CEO, that it would "reshape pretty much every software category that we know." . In addition, Windows on the consumer side needs to aggressively address the pricing issue. I think you only make money if you are number 1 so hence the Spotify alliance. A strong desktop market would entice many app developers to implement at least some UWP features making the Windows based app experience minimally equal to native Android but in some cases, better because of the Windows unique integration. I cannot come to purchase another mac. Plus, with WoA, a true plug-in Continuum experience running traditional Win32 apps in a desktop experience. I still see people in the subway with their iPhone 4. Literally any effing body can do that in his position. 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. I was all in on Microsoft's services and hardware, by not providing me a mobile option they have lost me as a user. Their actions speak louder than words. But until recently Surface and mobile were separate, meaning my statements about Surface would not apply to the 950 series. I understand your frustration but I do not agree to your comment people will not return. This has had to have had a big impact on Window 10 and its mobile ambitions. Whether consumers are willing to buy those devices has thus far been a mixed bag. Some of them will barely break even, and some may lose money in any one quarter, but if you focus on the cloud and enterprise customers only, you will quickly become irrelevant. Have already made the switch and though I miss windows phone, I have to say I'm much happier cause everything works. As Microsoftenters the Nadella era, its a sprawling company with some tremendously successful divisions and some fundamental challenges. ), but remove a mobile device and much of what we use is stationary. Almost always on their mobile - probably 99% of calls other than to other companies are made to, and received from mobiles. Maybe it's not too late. Satya Nadella has been with Microsoft for a really long time and during his tenure before becoming CEO has led some really vital business streams. Trust and believe that if MS were offering me something new right now with full Windows and a stylus to follow up my 1520, I'd be all over it. I feel betrayed and very disappointed. I'm a former java developer who has been swayed towards UWP and to "one software works on all devices" paradigm. And no Surface Phone. I wouldn't call it useless. Ballmer would have doubled down on the Nokia purchase and pushed Windows phone hard and all of the other developments could have kept developers on board and continued its slow, steady growth. Nadella will have to welcome droves of people into a culture that he will be only freshly in charge of. By Satya Nadella Oct 12, 2022. The thing that frustrates me the most about this is how the company was so secretive about its vision for Windows on phones; or lack thereof. MS was not in the position to deliver half-baked stuff at that time. I had a chance to speak with developers on many occasions to urge them to do the relatively little work it required to create a Windows compatible app. The problem I see is multi-faceted and not just about, "You have no phones for consumers." Those budget phone buyers were never going to drive app development. Theres obvious resistance from customers who prefer the control of "owning" local installations even when their software goes hopelessly out of date and becomes a security nightmare. I have personally seen such apps on existing windows tablets. As an end-user, I was frequently frustrated by the lack of a Windows Phone/Windows Mobile version for an app specialized to our industry. They make great products and then abandon the users who buy them. Companies that go after short term profits and sacrifice visions always lose in the long term, and unfortunately MSFT is at that crossroad. Satya Nadella. whenever I can I'll leave my L950 and I'll move to Android. Thus, he was biased for Azure and various cloud initiatives. What a joke. I know a lot of people want to blame Nadella, but that fault is on Balmer. What will this all mean to Continuum? OEM's wisely took the choice of the free OS over a paid one. I mean, he could have used the comment section/forums of Windows Central and got all the feedback he needed. That's why I am sure Nadella is not making a "mistake" in his mind. Nadella has said from the get go that Microsoft is committed to mobile. Link to the interview please. Nadella grew up in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and studied electrical engineering at Mangalore University (B.Sc., 1988). I've recently been on Android and had to go through the growing pains of my mom switching to iOS. I understand why they pulled out. When I read #HitRefresh it means kick the most loyal catagory of Windows Fans in the teeth in the mobile catagory. This brings us to: A huge chunk of the PC market remains on Windows XP. An original Xbox, 5 different Xbox 360's(red ring of death on two of them(! Even within W10 product delivery it has been a mismatch of poor services - Cortana language/accent limitations, region dependencies, store credit card (cc) limitations (only cc of the region set can be used). PC market is diminishing; tablet market is diminishing And Apple is amazing but I can't sell my soul to them. Nadella will come out of this looking like a savior. They were too far behind and too many people in the market hated MS anyway and werent willing to give them a shot at anything. Windows Phone just worked, but with each release they took away more and more features and broke other ones. Soooo, back out of mobile which is something that literally people in every corner of the planet use, or need, but jump onto some super-niche, iffy at best crap like VR? Lastly sort out new tabs in edge so they open up to the users home page or and page of choice. I left Windows Phone with the cancellation of the McLaren for Android. So no, it had nothing useful at a time when both Android and IOS were already much better. That doesnt appear to be the case. I was convinced that they will push mobile and UWP until it succeed and it would. This is going to hurt Microsoft for the coming decades. Bottom line, if you cannot win the war, change the rules of the game so you can define the battlefield yourself. Felt completely abandoned. In Leadership, Organizational culture areas, the firm needs to navigate environment by building strong relationship with lobby groups and political network. I looked into that and once again it would require rewriting and they wonder why, other than marketshare, developers stayed away they couldn't provide stability. According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston , it can also help in bringing the talent into domestic market and expanding into new areas Leadership, Organizational culture. I think this is one of the best options MS has if it wants to come back in the mobile space. Yet MS still makes the industry standard enterprise software. All their stated goals go out the window (pun intended) when they kill off pieces because it discredits their stated goals both internally and externally. Gates is pulling his strings now. You're dreaming. I don't know why they seem concerned about our comments in the Windows Phone Platform, but do nothing to fix what we share. Worse, it would still not have theMOBILE apps that iOS and Androidhave. So, if you can't re-model or create a market, you have to figure out how to survive in the market(s) that exist and that is what Nadella has done. Satya Nadella - Satya Narayana Nadella (; born 19 August 1967) is an engineer and Indian American business executive. Going to business users was literally following Blackberry to its grave. Not every one of your products and services will be a cash cow. Cheers to all! You don't even have to say "hey Cortana", so, there's that. I would buy one. Nadella grew up in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad and studied electrical engineering at Mangalore University (B.Sc., 1988). 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. They will naturally go with what they know, which won't be Microsoft. Jason this is one of the BEST articles I've read by you! As a consumer, I am now no longer interested in MS apps or services, and am now figuring out whether to switch to Android (and Google's apps and services) or Apple. So there isn't too much money in the mobile - currently there is no company that earns even a dollar by selling operating systems. No, but the folks who drive them sure do like the ride. And silence for 2 years from MS, resulting in speculation everywhere, like the guy who wrote this article here. 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. How much would it really cost to provide support for some company to continue W10M on a phone that it could sell at a profit? Plus, Win32 apps are running in emulation. Now, years later, we hear how much the people in charge hated it. But as I think, it's not too late, there is still chance of Plan C, which is to fork Android (AOSP) from scratch and have consumers, carriers and OEMS happy because there is no app gap anymore. Consumers that nowadays exist around a mobile ecosystem. BTW, if your two Band-2 devices were working properly when you decided to leave the Microsoft ecosystem, how much would you sell them for?. , we specialize at analyzing & providing comprehensive, corporate SWOT The problem is that Microsoft earn money on servers and support for Windows 10 pc. Satya Narayana Nadella became Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2014. MS has basically managed Windows Phone in the same light. On February 4, 2014, Nadella became CEO of Microsoft, the third person to hold the office in the companys nearly 40-year history, after company cofounder Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Sounds to me like Mocrosoft are not a company to invest in, either by buying their kit or shares. Surface had a solid fourth quarter in 2013, taking in $893 million on revenue. As developers we embrace new technologies, and most of us have spent much money and many hours learning it. Like many of you, I've defended this platform relentlessly. that Microsoft would fill in the mobile device space. My 950XL still works and I like it and the W10M approach. Given how people flip when it comes to analytics and Microsoft. 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. They cancelled their entire European release and gave up. we equip you to harness the power of disruptive innovation, at work and at home. Additionally, the important thing to note is the smartphone/mobile market has been led directly from consumers, and not enterprise. As much as he had to pull the plug on Balmer's bad decisions. Courtesy of the Nadella family As we talked, I learned that Satya's deeply empathetic nature owes much to his eldest . The windows phone works well for integration to server based sytems, whether they are corporate or personal enterprises. Mobile is not the biggest software market in the world. The general consensus seems to be mobile is an essential component to any future. Yeah, this will hurt them. There is a lot of progress in innovation on many levels, but there is a huge lack of following through in the fot and finish. It's tough to grow anything without seeds. Again, this is one of the bestarticles I read from you. Once they bought NOKIA, then that project was cancelled by Steve Ballmer. Mobile phones are not phones. The world may not need a third ecosystem, but Microsoft needed to be that third ecosystem. They remind me academic profesors in my post soviet european country - they are completley out of this reality and all of their research is just to prove something and than back to the drawer. Activity Finance teams are taking on a new role - striking the balance between strategic . Microsoft makes billions every year from the sale of the Android operating system. MS has very deliberately started funneling their fans to other platforms this past week and it's very upsetting because I truly love and enjoy Windows Mobile and have used a variation of it for the past 10+ years. Many of us are tired of being abused by a company that used us then left us hanging high and dry. I just ordered a Pixel 2, created a Google account and will begin to transition over time from Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive & Cortana to all the other Google apps and programs too. No thanks MS. Bye Bye. MBA students will look at it for years to come. Once, IBM was known for their computers, but then they changed focus from the individual to the corporation. In an act of outstanding bravery, on the same stage that hosted some of Ballmer's most gruesome power performances, stood Nadella, humble and soft . It's a follower and they don't want to admit itsad. I do not regret the decision, but I still do not like to android OS look and feel but It is very refreshing to have a feature filled OS and a much larger app gallery, but more importantly, apps that work well. we also need to put the blame on AT&T. Even if it doesn't grow by very much and even if we have to build the apps ourselves, it's a non negotiable. It was created by Linkin Park, very touch screen friendly! all history now. Too little too late for me. I currently have a 950XL. Microsoft is now worth more than $2.26 trillion. So it wasn't completely stupid as long as it was the only way to stay in the race until you figure out something better. They get Fat, Dumb, and Happy and the executives spend all their time in-fighting for their personal goals and spend much more time and money trying to LOCK their consumers into their product than expanding the products flexibility and usefulness. For more detailed SWOT Matrix strategy please go through the detailed analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in next section. Right now the average Joe might see AI as Siri, Google now, and Alexa. Well, I started getting angry with Mr. Softy when they screwed over we Surface RT owners. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. hits the nail on the head. Expansion into international market can help Nadella Satya to tap into international talent market. F-YOU MS I'M DONE. The contract, which would supply the . (See Gene Wilder in The Producers.). And then make whatever changes seem appropriate without being panicked by a single shareholder whose holdings constitute less than 1 percent of all shares. That was the finding of a survey on corporate attitudes by Microsoft Corp ., the workplace software giant and owner of LinkedIn. You are only partially right. Decided to Not buy an Xbox. If only HP had its own mobile platform. You may want to try. While such a device MIGHT appeal to business, no consumer is interested in running Win32 stuff on an 8 touch screen. EXCELLENT POINT, I completely agree!!! They could have moved the new Insider fork to just the X3 and kept a core group of loyalists happy while testbeding the tech. I had one for grarage band, but I could not stand OSX. There were other quarters where the % was higher, but sales were lower. So Nutella just let down windows phone to focus on developping a bunch of Skype bots that nobody talk with? They wouldnt let Tmobile, Sprint and Verizon have a foothold on the devices. I recently went back to an iPhone 8, and will now likely never go back to Windows on a pocket device. On consumer devices, the cost of a license is going to have to drop dramatically. They had huge volume of insiders giving them feedback for free. surely not - there will be books written about how they failed in that area. Is he really a CEO ? I was never unhappy with the OS as a whole and I still prefer it to Android. They will also see how easy and tempting it is to stay with just one ecosystem. I am staying with my April 2017 Lumia 950XL (UK) till it no longer works. After that, who knows. They did this with browsers in the early days of the consumer based internet. Good-bye MS. Good-bye Edge, Bing, Cortana, Groove, Office, Outlook, Photos, OneDrive, Skype, Store, etc., etc. Large organizations should welcome such scrutiny. Still, this remains the dumbest decision that I believe MIcrosoft has made. Learn from mistakes and grow with concepts not with words.First and most important, build products/services for each and every person. I don't know what's the solution to that is. 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. All to be left again, while they "retrench" themselves in another category. Not true. I have been Microsoft everything since the DOS days, not anymore. Microsoft WILL not gain from making their Windows 10 for desktops free as they need that business right now. I think that a key weakness that is rarely discussed . At least I have noticed this and I was researching and then found out like Media agenciesgetpaid for biased news. It doesn't have to compete against companies that make a lot of gadgets. Speakers Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Geneva Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corp. Podcast transcript Topics: Tech and Innovation Share: More episodes: md md These Experts Are Racing to Protect AI From Hackers. The only thing he could have done at that point was to discount hardware, but after the billion dollar Surface RT write-off he would have been crucified if Microsoft had to undertake what basically would have been another write off to discount hardware (i.e. 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 . You can create superb augmented reality but if people are using it on the device people have in their pocket you are lost. A heck of a way to treat your customers. For once I would like to hear a tech journalist that focuses on Microsoft products ask that one question. Now is their communication process and the way how they approach consumers ok? But I'm NOT keeping using it out of loyalty to MS - rather, because I like Windows 10 Mobile and the phone remains almost as capable as most other handsets out there. I was MS biggest cheer leader. That sh*t just doesn't add up. Its shortsighted. Guess which is going to win mindshare and therefore developer attention? @PATCHERD, There are a bunch of fanboys running around in the dark trying to find the door right now! If that presages a broad slowdown of Windows Phone sales, Microsofts mobile momentum could stall, pushing that magical 10 percent market share figure further and further out into the future. Sure, there's the Holodeck, but that's a plot device and not an actual envisioning of "how stuff gets done." Then they get all defensive when the backlash is real. After the 3rd, 4th 5th time they get it wrong, I'm sure you would write off that place from getting your money and time, because they clearly can't or don't care about your service. The fact that it was hard enough to get a 920 din't help. Jason Ward's synopsis "Nadella's broken consumer, developer, and OEM relationships will invariably affect the company's future." Your best so far. They dominate in search and Android, maybe IoT, but that is questionable. Its no good chasing the 'shiny new thing' if you cannot make your kit work now. Now even UWP apps will die soon without any comitment to mobile platform. This presents Nadella Satya two big challenges how to maintain loyal customers and how to cater to the new customers. As people starts to use Android and Iphones Microsoft office is not the only choice their. Im not going to pretend that I have enough insight or experience to tell Satya Nadella how to run Microsoft. Ready??? Still using Winpho till ATT says they won't support it. A better question is how well the larger set of tablet devices running Windows 8.x sell. The case study provides background on Nadella's challenges and context, as well as how he and his leadership team executed their culture change effort.