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Yeah, it's hard to see what Nadella's leadership has actually added to MS from where I've standing. As best as I can tell, there hasn't been any major new produ
by Amezarak 8y ago
Yeah, it's hard to see what Nadella's leadership has actually added to MS from where I've standing. As best as I can tell, there hasn't been any major new products or shifts since Ballmer left. People talk about MS "stagnating" under Ballmer, and that's true of the stock price, but revenue and profit more than doubled under Ballmer and he introduced multiple new billion-dollar products/services. Nadella has made some notable acquisitions (LinkedIn, Github, Minecraft), but I'm not real sure that these are really winners from a business perspective, aside from Minecraft.
Sure, Ballmer had failures too - Windows Phone and Zune didn't take off. But you can't win every time.
EDIT: Sorry, was lazy and abbreviated Windows Phone to WP.
- godelmachine 8y agoMay I ask what’s WP?
- ranie93 8y agoWindows Phone
- luckydata 8y agoNadella has made a few key changes, for example exempting internal product teams from having to consider Windows as the only OS to develop for, changed the incentive structure for sales to avoid pushing products enterprises didn't care about etc... When you're a CEO your success is usually not dependent by flashy all in decisions, especially if you're managing a giant company like MS. You are successful by setting policies that allow your talent to do more of the right stuff, your sales folks to sell more and better etc ...
- Amezarak 8y agoAll those things are great and I'm glad they're doing them, but I'm not convinced they make MS a more successful company in the long run.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI think they are in danger of neglecting Windows too much to the point of people leaving the platform. I personally wouldn't recommend Windows anymore. And almost nobody who isn't using Windows will use azure or .NET Core.
- commanderjroc 8y agoI completely disagree, using .NET Core on non-windows machines has a lot of upsides. I use linux almost exclusively and .NET Core has just worked and is way more perform-ant out the box than java or node has been.
- nicoburns 8y ago> And almost nobody who isn't using Windows will use azure or .NET Core. I disagree with this too. I've been looking into .NET Core since it's been open sourced. And I'd consider Azure. But I certainly won't be using windows (for server stuff) unless I'm forced to.