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Satya Nadella Appointed Microsoft CEO as Bill Gates Shifts from Chairman to 'Technology Advisor'
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It's not because this type of absurd reduction, leads to the conclusion that no one innovates anything. Which is why we are still in the stone age.
Ogg invent wheel. Ogg own patent to round mechanism that roll smoothly when force applied. Application of 4 of Ogg wheel to balance large load copy capacity across large surface is like stealing from Ogg. OGG SAY YOU ANSWER TO LAWYER!
Ogg has nothing to do with this. I'm not making an argument either for or against patents here.
OK so he is responsible for Office365? Cloud integration into Office2013?
Microsoft is doomed.
Office365 is horrible. We tried it at our work and then abandoned it as too buggy, unstable, and unreliable to ever trust. YMMV but for us it an absolute and utter failure.
As far as Office2013 is concerned, the cloud is tied into it so far we simply cannot use it. We just will not trust our confidential and private documents to storage outside our walls. We played with a couple of copies and then laid in a pile of Office2010 while they were still available. The difficulty in turning cloud storage off made is skip that version.
And THIS was the guy responsible for those two fiascoes?
I'll say it again. Microsoft is doomed.
I'm sure more hands on from Gates couldn't hurt M$ but really....don't you think if he had any grand ideas or solutions he would have presented them by now?
Well yes, everything is a product and everything is a service. But I mean hardware products and web services. The Xbox service is tied to Xbox hardware and that is how it comes in your house. In opposite to a Google service, which isn't bound to specific hardware or operation system. Google desperately wants to create its own platform with Chrome OS and (vanilla) Android, but they aren't held back by the failure of both.
Whereas Microsoft like Apple is now an integrated hardware, software and services company. When you've developed exceptional qualities in one of those fields, than it helps to sell the whole bundle. But if your hardware product is at best average, than the failure of the Surface tablets and Nokia phones become a failure of the whole OS and all its integrated services. Integrated just means success or failure, we are in it together.
So the "product guy" needs to get excited about everything down to the unboxing experience. Satya Nadella is more of a "services guy" and that is a backend technology, which should be totally transparent to the user anyway. No one at the top of Microsoft is focused on improving the user experience and therefore they will lose the end-user and fall back on enterprise customers, who generally care less about the joy of there employees.
They always blame it on the marketing team, never on the merits of the product itself.What Microsoft needs are more Zune's, but with a better marketing team
So, we've traded one MS career-lifer at the helm for another, and brought back the man that was great at one thing and one thing only - managing the business from a monopolistic and 'steal, copy and buy the competition' perspective when the world is so much different now than it was then when 'buy, copy and steal' worked so well, and the monopoly it ran meant something?? Can't see this is a good thing for MS, but can't say I'm surprised either. I haven't expected anything great from MS for a long time (and they just keep delivering on that expectation), and this non-change doesn't give me any cause to think any differently. Would be fun to be surprised, though, by them.
Ergo, Ogg invented the Pentium 4. That's the absurdity of this line of thinking.
Never mind, the reason MS went after the gaming systems was probably to prevent losing the PC based gaming market to consoles, if that were to happen at least they had a console of their own.
One big fat thumbs up for seeing the link where others see rivalry only and the opportunity for a snide remark.
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Not to worry, if he does, the board will beat it out of him.
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So why don't we see these world-changing ideas in action? I don't even have to question whether they exist, since if they do, they have remained utterly invisible.
Ergo, Ogg invented the Pentium 4. That's the absurdity of this line of thinking.
It's got wheels in it, don't it? What do you think the hamster runs in?
That, and as their biggest play for their MS in the living room initiative they've been working on since at least 2001.
Xbox is not a copy of the PlayStation unless you wanna argue all consoles are copies of each other
The Kinect is a stationary TOF sensor, not an accelerometer based controller like the WiiMote
Xbox Live is not Netflix, it's a gaming/content delivery service. It was also released long before Netflix started streaming video
And reality is almost every major company nowadays is a second mover. Including Apple. Last original product they created was probably the Newton, which was promptly ripped off and capitalized on by Palm, the second mover. Since then, every product space they entered, they weren't even first to market.
I think that's a vision that has been adapted and changed to fit after the fact. Their initial Windows media center ambitions was different (and had some issues).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPAqra8zCnk
Well than everything is a copy and everything is an original idea. But to which degree and how big are those small improvements? Are there any? Look at this, does it provide any new functionality that wasn't already present in Google Maps? Compare it to Apple Maps. First its not a website but a native app. Its vector graphics are free rotatable and so smooth. And Flyover is not a direct copy of Street View.
Flyover is not just another name for the same thing from a different company. It is a different approach to solve the same problem, whereas Microsofts solution is the same approach to solve the same problem. And while Apple uses its maps service to increase hardware sales, Microsoft has invested billions to build its own ad-based search engine, just the way Google finances its free maps service. Microsoft wants to replace Google not compete with them.
I think you might be simply redefining the word mediocre to sound little less, well, mediocre. Microsoft has chosen to be dull, and that fact is inescapable. Granted this may appeal in some sense to some of their more risk-adverse corporate customers, but those are not their only customers, not by a long shot. The reality is they have made forays into consumer products, but always with limited success, or very deep investments that take a long time to recover. It isn't like all of these products were bad by any means, but it seems either Microsoft couldn't quite see them through, or figure out how to make them pay off in the short run.
A lot of my disappointment with Microsoft goes back to at least 1995. They had eleven years (!) to figure out how to transform Windows into an OS that was more visionary than the Mac, but they elected instead to make it into a lukewarm clone of the Mac. I don't get all pumped up about whether they "copied" the Mac, so much as I am astounded that they used their time and resources so poorly. And why? Because just good enough was good enough, and that's they way they think. I don't see that anything has changed at Microsoft since then.
Klyover must be the most costly and useless feature currently on any map app.
Sorry but how many times do you need a such detailed bird view of a mayor city? Its useless for detail, its useless for navigating i frankly dont know any use for it besides it looks great to show off.
I was hoping Microsoft would go outside for their new CEO, but it looks the board won't allow it. The board won't allow anything that might be nice (and might not). They are far too conservative for their own good.
Of course, Tim Cook actually left Compaq. This guy isn't leaving Microsoft.
Competition is good. This is not a new CEO that makes me think Microsoft will be competing.
It is absolutely tragic.
I've talked to Microsoft engineers on a few occasions and the impression I was left with was that Microsoft would be a fantastic company if the engineers were in charge. But their talents are wasted by a corporate culture that is unwilling to take even the smallest of risks, and has no interest in any product that won't fit into their existing business model.
Pretty much. I was hopeful Microsoft would finally become a player in emerging markets but this signals just more of the same tired formula, and the continued decline.
Yeah, instead we know they're making a plethora of products that don't make money period with the case that it 'helps the ecosystem'.
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Microsoft isn't a bad company, so o don't get your point.
iPhone first to market
iPad first to market
iPod not the first, but ...
iTunes first to market
AppStore first to market
Unibody MacBook first to market
Magic Mouse first to market
PowerNap first to market
Retina Displays EVERYWHERE
I could go on and on. The Apple firsts are uncountable like the stars in the sky. Also Google products and services are generally firsts in their class. Microsame and Samesung on the other hand.
P.S. Of course now someone will rebuttal that smartphones and tablets have existed well before iPhone and iPad. They did not. If you think so, you don't understand these product categories.
Ballmer was awful. With their next CEO choice, the only way MS could go was up. Nadella looks like an improvement.
IMHO the entire MS/Apple situation is a little bit like Coke and Pepsi. I like to see Microsoft as a strong counter to Apple to keep Apple on its toes. Healthy competition helps drive innovation and keeps prices lower for consumers. Having a better CEO at the helm will help Microsoft.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of MS, but I do believe that competition is good, and I use Microsoft Office on all my Macs. Who knows, maybe Nadella can get them to work some more of the bugs out.
"We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose." -- Steve Jobs
IMHO the entire MS/Apple situation is a little bit like Coke and Pepsi. I like to see Microsoft as a strong counter to Apple to keep Apple on its toes. Healthy competition helps drive innovation and keeps prices lower for consumers. Having a better CEO at the helm will help Microsoft.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of MS, but I do believe that competition is good, and I use Microsoft Office on all my Macs. Who knows, maybe Nadella can get them to work some more of the bugs out.
"We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose." -- Steve Jobs
