Tag: satya nadella
Deconstructing Satya
Brian S Hall of Techpinions dissected the Satya Nadella internal memo. Nadella’s willingness to act fast, to re-make Microsoft, hack away at the extraneous and transform the company into “the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world” appears to be exactly what the company needs. But when you gut a $7.2 billion…
Microsoft leadership
Ben Brooks wrote about Microsoft’s mobile strategy. My criticism isn’t the easy play that they are firing 12,500 Nokia employees after claiming to be mobile first — it’s that they made these announcements too close together without laying out their strategy going forward clear enough. 1 And that is a problem of the worst kind:…
The day Microsoft gave up world domination and settled for relevance
Waffle writes about the day Microsoft decided to give up wanting to dominate all platforms. Ballmer and Gates think losing the platform war, no longer being the largest and the no-one-ever-got-fired-for choice means the end of the Microsoft as we know it, and they may be right. But it’s the also the beginning of the…