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Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years through short-term number-massaging actions at the cost of their competent

by talad 9y ago

Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years through short-term number-massaging actions at the cost of their competent engineers and core product development. Nadella isn't making a particularly strong case for MS either with his seeming distaste for any product of theirs that isn't either mobile or cloud-based (like the ones where they actually have a monopoly to build off and no competition worth speaking of), which seems to arise from that 'chasing growth numbers' mindset.

crispytx 9y ago
Yeah she was terrible. Their homepage still sucks, freezes up my browser all the time.
B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago
Microsoft products? "Windows is a service" is the word now, as firmly stated by a recent message demanding a PC reboot. (The first sentence was "Windows is a service and updates are a normal part of keeping it running smoothly.")
- cat199 9y ago
  to their "credit", this doesn't actually mean anything given the msft ability to misuse language consistently to make it sound more magical like
reacweb 9y ago
I am not in America, but when she arrived, I was very curious to see how she could revived such a dying zombie. Clients and engineers were leaving as hell. IMHO, she has done a lot to reduce the hemorrhage and make it attractive again.
- jonknee 9y ago
  > IMHO, she has done a lot to reduce the hemorrhage and make it attractive again. What are you talking about? She's no longer employed and Yahoo has been sold off to Verizon...
  - reacweb 9y ago
    I replied to the rewrite of history of yahoo, in particular that yahoo was healthy before Marissa Meyer arrived. IMHO, she had a positive effect on yahoo during her presence.
eip 9y ago
>Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years So she did exactly what Google paid her to do. Eliminate a competitor. How dumb do you have to be to hire a CEO from high in the ranks of your biggest rival?

by talad 9y ago

crispytx 9y ago

Yeah she was terrible. Their homepage still sucks, freezes up my browser all the time.

B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago

Microsoft products? "Windows is a service" is the word now, as firmly stated by a recent message demanding a PC reboot. (The first sentence was "Windows is a service and updates are a normal part of keeping it running smoothly.")

cat199 9y ago
to their "credit", this doesn't actually mean anything given the msft ability to misuse language consistently to make it sound more magical like

reacweb 9y ago

I am not in America, but when she arrived, I was very curious to see how she could revived such a dying zombie. Clients and engineers were leaving as hell. IMHO, she has done a lot to reduce the hemorrhage and make it attractive again.

jonknee 9y ago
> IMHO, she has done a lot to reduce the hemorrhage and make it attractive again. What are you talking about? She's no longer employed and Yahoo has been sold off to Verizon...
- reacweb 9y ago
  I replied to the rewrite of history of yahoo, in particular that yahoo was healthy before Marissa Meyer arrived. IMHO, she had a positive effect on yahoo during her presence.

eip 9y ago

>Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years So she did exactly what Google paid her to do. Eliminate a competitor. How dumb do you have to be to hire a CEO from high in the ranks of your biggest rival?