The providers didn't offer them, andwhen they finally didget some in stock, he employees knew nothing about them and actively discouraged anyone from buying them. Some (Low) percentage would simply not work anyways, depending on how they were written. They will never have any loyalty (or even knowledge of) to Microsoft going into the future. Rest 80% of the strategic targets are not achieved because of incomprehensive planning, limited resource allocation, and poor execution. I will say I diddefend the guy from time to time but now, after buying into the hardware and software game from Microsoft and then finding out later, they scrap it anyways. The people who run HDM were the same people within NOKIA and tried to push the company to make those X platform android devices. Go. They are better off waiting 10-15 years to appease the next generation of consumers and developers who have no history of being let down a dozen times. We're going to move to Android and IOS, and anything MS announces "in the future" won't matter to those who have moved on. It happpened to IBM, Sears, GE, GM, Kodak, BestBuy, Polaroid, and a host of others. The synchronization between the 3 is important to me. the Dell's, HP, Asus, Acers,Lenovo's WILL engage because they will have the opportunity to break open (in the long run) a market that is now in the hands of a duopoly (Apple and Samsung). Then they ******* kill Grove music. Consumers need free or less pricy option. They only barely made double digits in a handful of places on cheap phones. Windows 10 has the numbers and we see new good quality apps appearing in the store on a daily basis. In 2019 they will stop supporting win 10 mobile. I have been a windows mobile / phone user for a many years. Terrific job Satya Nadella !!! This has enabled Nadella Satya to build diverse revenue source and profit mix. Associate Editor, Encyclopdia Britannica. Why did users 'go off' the Windows Mobile as a solution? Facebook, Messenger, Line (in Taiwan, Japan), up coming iTunes, Netflix, Keeper, Instagram, TamperMonkey, Spotify, 8zip, etc. The 920,1020 were some of the most talked about sp(smartphone) on themarket during that time. What will this all mean to Continuum? I don't know what's the solution to that is. Im not going to pretend that I have enough insight or experience to tell Satya Nadella how to run Microsoft. People are missing a key point. One thing no one mentions on here, is the horrible launch and pulling of the KIN PHONES back in May of 2010 on Verizon. However my contract expires in the next few months so I shall just keep my options open and see what happens. Third category is pure professionals. Simply because they never pay. It doesn't pass the Star Trek Tech test: There's gazillions of handheld devices in the Star Trek universe. Guess which is going to win mindshare and therefore developer attention? I want another Windows device for mobile but I can't make an informed decison without information. The launchers and Cortana they came out with on Android are nice, but they didn't even bother to properly integrate Cortana into the launcher. You know it is a mistake, and you still do it. As Microsoftenters the Nadella era, its a sprawling company with some tremendously successful divisions and some fundamental challenges. Why would you want to piss them off? Is he really a CEO ? And who know's if and when a Chrome o/s will suddenly pring up, hey? The piece that Microsoft bought isnt much better. SWOT Analysis stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that Nadella Satya encounters both internally and in macro environment that it operates in. Nhu Tran February 10, 2023 Satya Nadella at Microsoft Case Study 1. Then we get them bought by HP. Comments like yours prove nothing more than you fanboys deserve every bit of crap MS is doing to you, for being to blind to act when the time was right instead kissing Nutella's @$$ and joining MS's guinea pig insider program. So market share never took off - regardless of the fact that the UI and overall experience was (and remains) far superior to the hunt-peck-oogle idiom of iPhone (which is like a nursery school toy) and Android (which sucks electrons faster than a Tesla at full speed). For an operating system that Microsoft wants to go dark in April, thats downright depressing. If there was one bone-head move in recent times I would reverse it would have been leaving HP out to dry. I've been on Android for a year now, full time since the S8 came out. Google has failed at various markets. The windows phone works well for integration to server based sytems, whether they are corporate or personal enterprises. Except if you paid sometimes after accepting agrements, but if you did, please tell us what? You dont need anyserver hardware or server OS licenses, just a Windows Azure instance that you can spin up (meter running) and down (youre off the clock) as needed. Jason this is one of the BEST articles I've read by you! " Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. I noticed MS focused more and more on this third segment. It helps to feel less foolish and disrespected by MS for their actions towards consumers. I think MS does have plans for Mobile (probably in line with Zach's overall vision) but they don't like to show devices till they are ready. Cortana on WP was probably the best virtual assitant, rarely giving me any problems with what I needed. I can honestly say that it is not stress free and definitely not stable. Right now the average Joe might see AI as Siri, Google now, and Alexa. " but he likes iPhone better" ~ Certainly, I'm not qualified to see the future or manage a multinational corporation, but even with phones being a money pit, it's one of those investments that look to me like a necessity, like Bing was. Balmer got it right when he wanted to populate users with inexpensive and fully usable handsets which bumped up the share to 4% world wide and around 15%in Europe only to be divested by Nadella. when Google and Apple are successfully marketing their own products? Who will buy MS product except company who use Office and cloud. Perhaps even that one will go universal app as many others . Microsoft is in for a world of hurt regarding operating systems or app stores going forward. The list goes on. HE SHOULD READ ALOT OF BOOK!!! The four key elements of SWOT analysis are - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats. They wouldnt let Tmobile, Sprint and Verizon have a foothold on the devices. Why couldn't he have done that? Now i rather have Phil spencer or Panos at head of Microsoft, people that stand behind their products and fans, consumers. MS can do the world a favor and leave the consumer market altogether. Nothing is cast in concrete anymore, but that goes in both directions. I'm actually considering holding my nose and going to Apple in the hope of finding some systemic consistency. What's the issue and im genuinely asking? Movies and TV will be next. By using the old adage of "embrace and extend". Windows 10 mobile finally intergrated with all of it's relative platforms through cloud syncing making it a hybrid of sorts between iPhone and Android, allowing an ideal environment for users to exist in a multiplatform ecosystem. Activity Finance teams are taking on a new role - striking the balance between strategic . They did this with browsers in the early days of the consumer based internet. But life has literally been moving and Windows 10 Mobile has almost stood still and now to the point of going away. If you pretend to be a global player you'd better have people in your Board that are connected to the different regions you want to serve, so that also goes for Asia-Pacific, China etc. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. Plus many government agencies were selecting windows phones for security reasons. My whole family is on Windows Phone because of me,I have lost friends defending and aruging overWindows Phoneand itsaddens me that this CEO has dragged Microsoft down to this point and yes I blame him. You just don't understand the difference between the 'patent' and 'operating system'. Like many of you, I've defended this platform relentlessly. 1. Video Transcript DAN HOWLEY:. Microsoft tries to play fair and their competitors equivalently dirty. VHS v Betamax, MP3 v losless audio, Beats Headphones v any named audio house) just which is the most popular. How much have you or your company invested in Microsoft "mobile" over the last 5 years? But CEO Satya Nadella shared his plan for how. In the BB days no BB owner would have imagined they would abandon their platform, then enter iPhone pardigm change. Now that Satya Nadella has takenthe reins from Steve Ballmeras CEO of Microsoft, he has just a few more hours before he has to stop the celebrating and getting-to-know-you interviews and get to work. While such a device MIGHT appeal to business, no consumer is interested in running Win32 stuff on an 8 touch screen. From this armchair analyst's view, the whole thing failed simply because Satya wanted it to. - he made stock holders some money. Everyone was writing about the death of Windows Phone/Mobile, whilst fans were sticking up for it, and Microsoft simply ignored anything about it. In fact, in our consulting firm I am the only one left with knowledge and there is no push for others to train. surely not - there will be books written about how they failed in that area. I hardly read Windows Central anymore either as the notifications are ***** on Android. Google now has a year's worth of my use and it's assitant, while not as nice as Cortana, has customized itself to me. - Changing Technology Landscape Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence boom is transforming the technology landscape that Nadella Satya operates in. As more consumers are familiar with Android - it will get into the business place. Fact, the Lumia 520 proved there is a wp market in the US, period. Let the more committed companies lead the world into the future! All about the same. Nadella Satya is struggling to restructure processes in light of developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning. And my guess is that these items are all high on Nadellas to-do list. The ship was already torpedoed by the time Nadella got the helm. That's now Nadellas problem to deal with. WebOS was a great OS on very underpowered hardware. Actually after the 520 i equipped my family with 635, 640, and 830. The next step is to move to that model for Windows-powered consumer devices. Windows OS for Enterprise This includes canceling my 365 subscription and will close my OneDrive account once I transfer everything over. I was mistaken to believe their vision and commitment to consumers went beyond that. This was the straw that broke the camel's back and I very much doubt they'll be relevant at all, in the consumer space, in a few years time. The general consensus seems to be mobile is an essential component to any future. I've never had a any other smart phone but a Microsoft mobile OS. Without a mobile platform of their own their future is limited if not over. Advertisers don't care either, you'll get one dime a click for them. Now, No ******* thing. You can create the greatest OS known to man, but without apps the platform will be DOA. Since Satya became CEO, it has grown nine times to a valuation of $2.5 trillion, making Microsoft one of the world's two most valuable companies. Good article. The key difference is that the former is a reputation of perpetually stunted progress, vs a reputation of continuous progress. If people start to use other software than Microsoft Office on those Android phones and Iphones then well then Microsoft is actually tottally irrelevant on the smartphones and hence really out of the bit data business in the smart phone business. They simply do not respond to touch. How will Microsoft stay relevant? Sounds to me like Mocrosoft are not a company to invest in, either by buying their kit or shares. Going to business users was literally following Blackberry to its grave. I mean seriously how hard would it have been for them to fork Android into a WP like looking OS. Long time (I'm 46!) What really hurts is that people buy what they know. What was left was probably fixable to an extent. All except Surface Pros have been ditched by MS. MS cons consumers into investing in its ecosystem then dumps them a year or two later. And no Surface Phone. Sure, the US wasn't one of those but who cares, parts of the EU were huge, Brazil also if I recall correctly and a few other places. I think Windows 10 as OS should be friendly with all types of nature. The lack of apps does not bother me because those same free apps are the feeding tubes for identity theft and loss of privacy to data mining. That could go poorly. Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston (2018), "Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset Harvard Business Review Case Study. If you feel that you've constantly let consumers down (which actually you have) then do something to bridge that gap. Europe has 750 000 000 people, that's a bigger market than US. This is what we should expect from MS? Europe is a 500 million people big market so I don't think that's a small market at all. You've even way over engineered Visual Studio so much that VB & C# are no long intuitive and much more confusing to use and develop in. It had features that the iPhone couldn't simply do until the iPhone 3 came out. Of course it was a mistake Nutella. "We didn't get . But they weren't dropping. Awesome 20mp camera And windows 10 is finally usable with creators update :)) The iphone 4 with the old Os it has still has more apps than your 950xl. Maybe what MS really needs is a complete corporate leadership flush out. They remind me academic profesors in my post soviet european country - they are completley out of this reality and all of their research is just to prove something and than back to the drawer. The excitement, expectation, thrill, is just not the same).. By sticking with the current project he not only earns respect from consumers, he also makes his loyalty a rallying and starting point for everyone. Still a very profitable company, but no consumer play. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. Maybe it's not too late. Glad I'm not one of them because after year one he needed to be fired or put back in charge of the cloud department and someone else put in charge! 8 years? But if they were smart they would not brand it Microsoft or Windows. The only thing he could have done at that point was to discount hardware, but after the billion dollar Surface RT write-off he would have been crucified if Microsoft had to undertake what basically would have been another write off to discount hardware (i.e. Microsoft has officially jumped the shark. Instead of building bridges to the future, MIcrosoft has burned many. Hehe . Satya Nadella will never read WC thread but, a "global survey of PO'd users" might get picked up by the Press? I think it is a very intense business to do the digital "rights" management etc. But I get a feeling its history repeating itself all over again in the mobile space. It's very early days for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and for the company's overhaul from a 1990s PC company to a service and cloud company. I believe so. Before slinging the "A" word around, try doing some research. Students and even teachers have chromebooks, the developers once so important for Microsoft have fled already and are concentrating on iOS/Android/webapps where the users are. Everyone has seen the clip of Steve Ballmer doing that chant, right? Apple and Google leak like seives and MS know they keep their cache with the big reveals. Seriously, Nadella is an example of the Peter Principle and MS needs new leadership that can harness the enthusiasm of their devs and customers to re-introduce Win phones and improve their offerings & quality across the board. Everything MS tries ends in failure.. will consider using VM now. But I do think it would help for microsoft to look broadly at the extensive feedback, and get the back log of insider feedback going. Nadella is synonymous with the cloud for a reason. While actual revenue from direct OS purchase may not be as impressive market share matters. Meanwhile, they failed spectacularly in the biggest markets such as US and China. Just once. the fact is Windows smart phones were not selling very well so Microsoft cut back on Windows smart phones.but Microsoft CEO Nadella and other Microsoft execs hinted Microsoft will make a smart phone that does not look like smart phone out there today. Satya is just like this but on steroids. Not because of the content and information but mainly because its just sad. The only thing I can see is them forking Android apps to work natively on the PC. @cryio.My son has autism. re-add all the phones that could run the creators update to the feature 2 branch or red stone branch. MShave been announcing 1 unified OS (now called OneCore) scalable since many years now. May also look into jumping to the Apple ecosystem because it all just works together like the Microsoft one used to. Boy do I look like a fool now! It's frustrating to see for a company I was quite overzealous about at a time. My 950XL still works and I like it and the W10M approach. Nadella should admit he made a mistake and walk back the decision to sacrifice not only Windows Phone, but all the folks who love it. It is also clear that WinPhone/WinMob was a cluster-f from the day iOS was launched and WinMob 6.5 was terrible by comparison. I was idealist I told myself I'd add my two bits to this grand idea against the odds because I believed in it. Do you need one? But then Microsoft figured - it's just a couple of hundred bucks down the crapper, I mean, you've already stood by me through so much. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Based on details provided in the Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset case study Nadella Satya can easily grow in its domestic market without much innovation but will require further investment into research and development to enter international market. Enter Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Once, they held conferences announcing new operating systems and individuals went to the conference. Plus, with WoA, a true plug-in Continuum experience running traditional Win32 apps in a desktop experience. Thats not to diminish the fact that Windows Phone itself needs all the developer attention it can muster. "Well-being is one of the most important pieces of productivity management 2. Well by then Microsoft will either have a new mobile phone system ready or be irrelevant in the mobile business. Also I hope it is clear that MS has moved on from Mobile focus they now want to catch up with the supposedly next big thing. Satya Nadella. ng l ch tch hi ng qun tr v tng gim c iu hnh ca Microsoft, k nhim cho Steve Ballmer vo nm 2014 vi t cch l gim c iu hnh [2] [3] v John W. Thompson vo nm Kinda worrying the CEO doesn't get that. Instead they tried the other way around and failed. Actual sales, not percentages of some small market. Now, we're having to move on. It is hard to believe but we are almost there. Now, even if the next big thing coming from Microsoft will be awesome, gorgeous, stellar everybody will ask themselves: "Is this thing going to last at least for 2 years? According to Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan, Anna Johnston , Nadella Satya can use these developments in improving efficiencies, lowering costs, and transforming processes. you could install almost any android app you need ,even the google store. He articulated the company's mission, transformed the corporate culture, and formed strategic partnerships with Microsoft's fiercest . During his four-day India visit, the Microsoft Executive Chairman and CEO had an interesting interaction with an AI at the Future Ready Technology Summit in Bengaluru on Wednesday. WP8.1 and the aquistion of Nokia was arguably either a desparate or ingenious move at the time because it offered the possiblity of a hero mobile device that directly could have competed with Apple's product but also allowed the license to be available to other oems similar to Android. In my experience because too many didn't even realise it existed due to a total lack of marketing. Lets take a moment instead to focus on what could go wrong for the new CEO. No one cares about that. (No, I haven't timed for how long, but but more that 5 minutes. Ok, then where are all these European sales? The reason we are all consumers of this company's MODERN products is from what Steve pushed. I still kinda hoped from afar all these years. Everyone has at least two mobile devices - phone and tablet and mostly they don't run Microsoft OS. That works out to 35M discounted (to free) phones. By Antonio Planas. But they didn't do that. I keep having to reboot the Galaxy S7. Comments . They sat on the old Windows Mobile WAY too long with no innovation after the iPhone and Android had taken off, established their stores and ecosystems for apps. But there are certainly opportunities to paint a brighter line between the two sides of the house than weve seen so far. why they killed project astoria? Facebook seems to be really putting in the effort with their VR offering. It never translated to consumer sales for Apple computers. Those budget phone buyers were never going to drive app development. They get Fat, Dumb, and Happy and the executives spend all their time in-fighting for their personal goals and spend much more time and money trying to LOCK their consumers into their product than expanding the products flexibility and usefulness. It's far easier to hold on to customers than it is to acquire them. To them, if one aspect of infrastructure is failing, you cut it out and either replace it with a better part or you cut it out and re-route, as that's the cheapest option with a lower lead time. DAN HOWLEY: Satya Nadella has been Microsoft's CEO since February, 2014 and chairman of the board since 2021. Microsoft's annual stockholders meeting, as I recall is November 29, 2017 - 49 days from today - why not speak with a LOUD GLOBAL VOICE! Trust and believe that if MS were offering me something new right now with full Windows and a stylus to follow up my 1520, I'd be all over it. Thank you, Brett. Without that key influx of new devices, Windows 8.xs store is all gussied up with no one to dance with. - Project Management is too focused on internal delivery rather than considering all the interests of external stakeholders. You may want to try. It's still a devkit not used but anybody relevant. When MS failed to do anything to keep me as a customer, I finally switched to Apple (after resisting for years). That comment deserves an up vote. James. Contacts (People), email, calendar etc are all tied to MSFT ecosystem and the mobile thread is Windows Phone. On February 4, 2014, Nadella became CEO of Microsoft, the third person to hold the office in the companys nearly 40-year history, after company cofounder Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Inspirational Motivation. HoloLens is cool and all but its not in consumers hands. So when it comes time to launch a new category of devices they can draw from that loyal consumer base to use their new product. They need to fucus on that as well. :))) Are you smoking something? My L950 is still kicking. Nadella cowrote (with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols) Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsofts Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone (2017), which included a discussion of his life as well as his thoughts on technology and leading. How much would it really cost to provide support for some company to continue W10M on a phone that it could sell at a profit? Omissions? Like a domestic violence victim, MS fanboys everywhere should be asking some critical questions about the relationship they find themselves in. How can MS kill its own future? The truth is that they drop a very good system that is starting to work very well. That is why world share reached 4%. WP never had significant market share. I can honestly say, I would go back to my windows phone in a heartbeat if it had the same apps and a future. Even that company has the major stake in that segment of the industry? What is taking shape now is that consumers are finally catching on that Microsoft within a short period of time gives up on hardware,for example Zune, Windows RT, Micosoft Band, and now Windows Phone. And, given that Stephen Elop was tipped as a leading CEO candidate, some could be unhappy that their guy did not win. When he took the helm in 2014, he noted a critical company weakness: Microsoft didn't know how to social. Gates is pulling his strings now. But music is a different beast and the spotify deal enables MS to focus on their long term goal (OneCore etc.). Integrate the Nokia division without bloodshed. Microsoft's CEO wrote for Fast Company about a quote from philosopher Sren Kierkegaard that . MIcrosoft should keep W10M alive until it can upstage it to something better. Sounds alot like myself Matt. Probably then he would pay attention and his bottom line would change Amd that of his short term investors. Have already made the switch and though I miss windows phone, I have to say I'm much happier cause everything works. 3. This is a death note for Microsoft and they will go the way of IBM. Unfortunately Microsoft's lack of focus and inability to market thier own product made this deal seem like a precieved desparate move instead of taking full adavntage of this opprtunity. A $299 Surface with 64GB, keyboard included, could do the job IMHO. Microsoft was plagued by the . In hindsight, I'm convinced it was doomed from the beginning. And completely abandoning the consumer market, going for business only.