How do you evaluate Nadella's work at MSFT?

[FreakofNature]

Nokia was a legendary mobile phone company. Thanks to Microsoft it's now irrelevant.

Unfair comment, it was on a steady decline long before MSFT.

 

[Simples]

Lately MSFT is trying to catch up the services offered by other companies. If Nadella continues to play "catch up" game, it could be a bad time for MSFT. It does not look like Nadella has a vision and can create something new. The main difference between Google and MSFT is that Google is looking for people with visions and new ideas and MSFT is looking for cheap labor by moving most of their development to India.

To be fair, the company has always been playing "catch up", and have succeeded doing so by being "good enough", consolidation of many technologies, marketing, aquisitions and shady deals. Just more of the same in that respect.

 

[Vincent S. Ashmore]

Nadella should have bumped the dividend rather than pay for profiles of inactive unemployed people

 

[Turveyd]

Nokia lacked a good OS which was hurting it, windows mobile wasnt bad, if you dont mind scrolling through huge lists and tiles that all look the same, lack of teamviewer and tradeinterceptor killed it for me, not checked if TV came later.

Dont understand how msft are surviving, they've given Win10 away, no body appears to be buying Metro apps, office is there only valid software and cloud based office365 is just aweful, its like going back to 1991.

 

[Rationalize]

Third world thinking from Hyderabad.
No surprises.
More shoe prints on the toilet seats.

 

[felixbocharov]

Nokia was a legendary mobile phone company. Thanks to Microsoft it's now irrelevant.

I don't know what's the point of their acquisitions, they acquire a company and then do nothing to somehow help this company to grow, they just make it a satellite which then goes belly up in a couple of years.

 

[felixbocharov]

Nokia lacked a good OS which was hurting it, windows mobile wasnt bad, if you dont mind scrolling through huge lists and tiles that all look the same, lack of teamviewer and tradeinterceptor killed it for me, not checked if TV came later.

Dont understand how msft are surviving, they've given Win10 away, no body appears to be buying Metro apps, office is there only valid software and cloud based office365 is just aweful, its like going back to 1991.

That's a valid point, and the worst part is that in all this chaos they manage to buy some crap-companies for the extreme sums of money.

 

[felixbocharov]

Nadella should have bumped the dividend rather than pay for profiles of inactive unemployed people

Totally true, I think for this pile of cash they could've built their own social network.

 

[Simples]

I don't know what's the point of their acquisitions, they acquire a company and then do nothing to somehow help this company to grow, they just make it a satellite which then goes belly up in a couple of years.

"Because they can". Not my words, but somebody's.

My words would be much harsher on "Capitalism".

 

[Turveyd]

Totally true, I think for this pile of cash they could've built their own social network.

Given everyone on the planet with Internet access $5 + as a joining incentive.


Knocked up a much better web site in a few weeks no hassle at all, what 10k?