It should be obvious by now that it has been years, if ever, that Satya Nadella has opened the box on a brand-new Windows machine and used it for any length of

It should be obvious by now that it has been years, if ever, that Satya Nadella has opened the box on a brand-new Windows machine and used it for any length of time. Back in Detroit's "Malaise Era", all of the executives received company cars that had first gone through the workshop to correct defects. The executives had no way to personally experience the problems that regular customers saw and felt; even worse was that they only experienced a product that had been worked over and prepped - leading them to think that their product was better than it really was. MS (and probably even Apple) is heading for disaster, and their cloud revenue is probably going to mask it until it is too late.