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Is Nadella doing anything else apart from outsourcing? I would argue that Microsoft is the same ship as it was with Ballmer, but the times changed a bit, both

by rvba 2y ago

Is Nadella doing anything else apart from outsourcing? I would argue that Microsoft is the same ship as it was with Ballmer, but the times changed a bit, both the software and market matured. But essentially Microsoft still sells the same software mostly to businesses as it was in 2000. Maybe with some sprinkle on top. Did they manage to get any new product in last 10 years? Windows phone was a failure. Xbox is older? Copilot is licensed from OpenAI? Google allready went the "jack welch" way - there was a hit piece about it some time ago here on HN. Microsoft still tries to provide backwards compitability, since that's where they get money. But how long? Their last iterarions of products are a net loss of efficiency in the office (new dekstop layout, sharepoint - terrible losses of productivity), so they try very hard to get disrupted.

ghc 2y ago
Let's see, under Nadella's tenure since April 2014, Microsoft: - releases Windows 10 (2015) - releases hololens (2015) - buys Mohjang (2015) - launches VSCode (2015) - buys LinkedIn (2015), integrates it into Exchange - releases Teams (2016) to compete with Slack - launches Office 365 to compete with GSuite (2017) - Azure IoT (2018) - Acquires Github (2018) - Acquires Zenimax (2020) - X Box Seres S/X (2020) - Chrome-based Edge - launches Windows 11 (2021) - Buys Activision/Blizzard (2023) - OpenAI partnership/investment I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of impactful things too. We might not like what Microsoft is doing, but it's acquisitions have been brilliant, it's released a lot of impactful open source stuff like VSCode, and it has embraced linux-derived technologies.
- rvba 2y ago
  New releases of Windows 11 are nothing special? Expected? Teams is worse than Lync after so many years, the interface is still rubbish. Hololens is one of those products without a market and rest are just acquisitions. The quality of products (in my opinion) is down. I can see multiple ways where they negatively impact productivity.
- suprjami 2y ago
  So new releases of its flagship product, buying a bunch of companies who already had their own product, a reskin of Chromium, and Teams. You've convinced me that Microsoft are actually doing much worse than I previously thought.

by rvba 2y ago

ghc 2y ago

Let's see, under Nadella's tenure since April 2014, Microsoft: - releases Windows 10 (2015) - releases hololens (2015) - buys Mohjang (2015) - launches VSCode (2015) - buys LinkedIn (2015), integrates it into Exchange - releases Teams (2016) to compete with Slack - launches Office 365 to compete with GSuite (2017) - Azure IoT (2018) - Acquires Github (2018) - Acquires Zenimax (2020) - X Box Seres S/X (2020) - Chrome-based Edge - launches Windows 11 (2021) - Buys Activision/Blizzard (2023) - OpenAI partnership/investment I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of impactful things too. We might not like what Microsoft is doing, but it's acquisitions have been brilliant, it's released a lot of impactful open source stuff like VSCode, and it has embraced linux-derived technologies.

rvba 2y ago
New releases of Windows 11 are nothing special? Expected? Teams is worse than Lync after so many years, the interface is still rubbish. Hololens is one of those products without a market and rest are just acquisitions. The quality of products (in my opinion) is down. I can see multiple ways where they negatively impact productivity.
suprjami 2y ago
So new releases of its flagship product, buying a bunch of companies who already had their own product, a reskin of Chromium, and Teams. You've convinced me that Microsoft are actually doing much worse than I previously thought.