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It is not like Microsoft’s CEO was behaving very admirably or free of ego.

• blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
  For some reason people give Satya a pass. I guess because he comes off as a nice guy. Somehow no one associates all the anti competitive stuff MS does with him - like bundling Teams into Office, or forcing a Copilot button onto OEMs, or dark pattern nagging about default apps, or inserting ads into the start menu, or whatever. But that mode of operation is classic MS, and it makes sense they are still this way, since Satya was a long time MS veteran before he was CEO. All that said, he is probably actually nicer than previous MS executives. He has had a lot of difficulty in his personal life around his son, and that probably changed him for the better.
  • startupsfail 2y ago
    "We are below them, above them, around them." - doesn’t sound particularly ego free or nice. And it seems that between the choice of OpenAI reassembling at Microsoft and OpenAI continuing under Sam Altman, the nonprofit board had decided to go ahead with Sam Altman.
  • CuriouslyC 2y ago
    Satya is a canny player, he knows how to give with one hand and take away with the other like a magician so you don't see the trick. I wish he was pushing Microsoft to be a bit more ethical, but he has done good stuff and he's a good model CEO, since he hasn't done any one genius thing, but he's consistently positioned and executed well which is something the "average" leader can model.