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It's a good analogy. Balmer went into the right direction (cloud), but with the wrong execution. Nadella is also going into a sensible direction (ai), but the e
by epolanski 10mo ago
It's a good analogy. Balmer went into the right direction (cloud), but with the wrong execution. Nadella is also going into a sensible direction (ai), but the execution is abysmal.
Instead of focusing on properly executing a handful of projects where AI could be leveraged successfully, they went all in on AI everywhere with only a very handful of useful tools.
- pjmlp 10mo agoUnfortunely it has also landed on DevDiv experience, see AI on Windows Terminal, Aspire Dashboard,...
- vips7L 10mo agoI guess I haven’t updated my terminal in a while. I haven’t seen the forced ai there yet.
- poisonborz 10mo agoCEOs mostly just set direction, the workforce remains the same (sans mass-layoffs).
- IAmBroom 10mo agoNo, they also approve major decisions that affect that directional change. This was approved by the CEO, without doubt.
- epolanski 10mo agoYes, and it's clear that the direction is "shove ai everywhere".
- DiskoHexyl 10mo agoI’d wager that mass layoffs only crystallize the essence of a company, removing everyone who isn’t willing to conform 100%, for better or worse. A giant machine sheds all that slows down its drive (to somewhere), even by thinking too much, and, at a certain size, it may actually be an advantage
- _DeadFred_ 10mo agoYou know how forums turned bad because people with good manners/communication skills can just go to a different discussion place so over time you consolidate with a toxic base of people with nowhere else to go? Even if a company tries to get rid of the bad people, once you start doing random, the line must go up layoffs, the best people leave and then use their network within the company to poach the next down layers of good people. Current American 'layoff while spending the money on stock buybacks' is corporate suicide.
- sph 10mo agoYeah the direction is down the shitter, and you can blame the CEO Satya Nadella for that.
- iammjm 10mo agoAFAIK it was Nadella who went all-in on cloud. Ballmer was more into now irrelevant stuff like windows phones
- pjmlp 10mo agoWhich I still miss, .NET Native, C++/CX, UAP/UWP, were so much better developer experience than Android, oh well. They were also a good evolution from the Win32 model on desktop, what .NET 1.0 should have been, but Nadella's management completly messed Windows development experience as well.