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New MS CEO?

Virgorising

Virgorising

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Not sure where this belongs, if not here, might someone pls move it to wherever?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/microsoft-satya-nadella-ceo_n_4698007.html

Says developing story. I have no clue, but, that they were considering people from other industries.....I think is sad. Tho also true, being uberly sharp, innovative AND responsive to the marketplace for real.....is bottom line in any industry.

Course, greed NOT marking the engine pistons (sorry, still stuck in combustion).... would also help long term. Healthy ambition not the same as abject greed.
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Edit: jus found this....

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/nadella/

I dunno, he sounds impressive to me. He was once at SunMicro.....I know someone who worked there.

Opinions??????
 
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Just found this:

http://rcpmag.com/articles/2013/12/18/microsoft-new-ceo-2014.aspx

If one more person says or writes "skillset".....or "pricepoint' or 'fabrication" when they mean FABRIC, I will go BATDOODY.

Also, remember what happened when Steve Jobs chose and hired that former CEO of Pepsico/ corporate hack to helm Apple? He said, worst mistake he made. I think it was.

At least this guy is authentic tech person. Maybe, he is NOT Faust! We don know he is, right?

Yet.
 
Virgorising said:
Just found this:

http://rcpmag.com/articles/2013/12/18/microsoft-new-ceo-2014.aspx

If one more person says or writes "skillset".....or "pricepoint' or 'fabrication" when they mean FABRIC, I will go BATDOODY.

Also, remember what happened when Steve Jobs chose and hired that former CEO of Pepsico/ corporate hack to helm Apple? He said, worst mistake he made. I think it was.

At least this guy is authentic tech person. Maybe, he is NOT Faust! We don know he is, right?

Yet.
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A tech person is not the best candidate for CEO of a company. Now, the person should have a strong tech background if he's going to be the CEO of a tech based company like Microsoft but a pure tech guy may not have the acumen for making the right business decisions.
 
akugami said:
A tech person is not the best candidate for CEO of a company. Now, the person should have a strong tech background if he's going to be the CEO of a tech based company like Microsoft but a pure tech guy may not have the acumen for making the right business decisions.
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Which is why I am trying to get a handle of who this guy is. I think, right now, along with the rest of the world.
 
Been tracking responses to that article on Huffington......for me, this is the most worthy, accurate response so far....it was in response to some posting well their stock is doing just great, that is all that matters:

Dan N. (UgaAllTheWay)

30 Fans · Atheist moderate in Atlanta. Both sides are wrong

They are ailing because their current products and profits are not in a sustainable model. Nobody likes Windows 8 or Windows Phone. MS Office sales are declining with Google Docs and Open Office biting at their ankles. The server market is dominated by Linux. XBOX and enterprise sales are what keep them afloat.
30 Jan 7:12 PM
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Edit: Not being a fan of consoles, I had no clue to what extent their profits depend on Xbox anything.
 
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Virgorising said:
Just found this:

http://rcpmag.com/articles/2013/12/18/microsoft-new-ceo-2014.aspx

If one more person says or writes "skillset".....or "pricepoint' or 'fabrication" when they mean FABRIC, I will go BATDOODY.

Also, remember what happened when Steve Jobs chose and hired that former CEO of Pepsico/ corporate hack to helm Apple? He said, worst mistake he made. I think it was.

At least this guy is authentic tech person. Maybe, he is NOT Faust! We don know he is, right?

Yet.
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Why because Sculley made the management at Apple accountable including Jobs. Even if Jobs was still on the payroll. Apple was going down anyways with IBM and the clone pc's taking the market share. The niche artist desktop publishing cliental was not enough for Apple to succeed at that time.

Akugami is spot on with his comment. Let the engineer's innovate and let the business men bring it to market.
 
Raincity said:
Why because Sculley made the management at Apple accountable including Jobs. Even if Jobs was still on the payroll. Apple was going down anyways with IBM and the clone pc's taking the market share. The niche artist desktop publishing cliental was not enough for Apple to succeed at that time.

Akugami is spot on with his comment. Let the engineer's innovate and let the business men bring it to market.
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First, your account does not comport with all I've read re the history of Apple. Including, re Scully. Not exaclty a renegade visionary genius.

Gates, for all his downside, was and is both a techie and one of the most rabid, focused and successful businessmen who ever lived.

Apparently, same deal is true for Zuckerberg. Tho he, Mark, also knows who to invest in and hire.

Never think categorically or simplistically.

Forget, there are unfathomable by conventional means, but never not accessible factors which comprise genius.

Geniuses are not the product of high end, esoteric graduate degrees. In any arena. Mutts are the healthiest animals, not purebreds via narrow gene pools.

Edit: and, had Jobs not come back there might not still be Apple.
 
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denis280 said:
The wizard of OZ.and don't argue with me. I know.Some guy named bill.closed the gate on MS.and broke some windows.😱ok time for my pills😵
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😎

k.....SO DOES THIS MEAN you LIKE THIS GUY? Or that he is a dog and pony show with smoke and mirrors?

If the latter, which I think.....how come? Seriously....do we know his reality?

And, "closed the Gate/broke some Windows" outstanding for a guy whose first language is French!😀

My take, having read the history of MS---boy, was THAT INTERESTING--- is it was his obliterating greed which closed the Gate.
 
denis280 said:
If he can do the (Jobs) get it.no serious if is up to it. well great.
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:biggrin:

Let us know when U go on the road! We will all buy tickets!:wub:

I just emailed the genius guy I know who was important at SunMicro, not any business end.....re do U know who this guy is??? Spare no details, spill the tea!
 
Virgorising said:
Gates, for all his downside, was and is both a techie and one of the most rabid, focused and successful businessmen who ever lived.

Apparently, same deal is true for Zuckerberg. Tho he, Mark, also knows who to invest in and hire.
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Successful, yes, but keep in mind both those people stole their startup ideas from other people. Zuckerberg stole his idea from some fellow classmates of his that he was doing work for. Gates stocks his ideas from the open community of geeks at the time. Both just happened to have impeccable timing.
 
Matt1970 said:
Successful, yes, but keep in mind both those people stole their startup ideas from other people. Zuckerberg stole his idea from some fellow classmates of his that he was doing work for. Gates stocks his ideas from the open community of geeks at the time. Both just happened to have impeccable timing.
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Every part of the above=TRUE! MANY times, sooooo many, I have run down the blood money specifics to blind MS loyalists!

For me, it's not where you go...it's how you TRAVEL. Accurate history of MS=SHAMEFUL!!!!! Not unlike the robber Barons! Absolutely.

This is also why I wanna get accurate handle on who this guy is.
 
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OK, RATS.

Heard back from the famous genius guy who was very important at Sun Micro.....I got so excited thinking he would give us important details re who this guy is......I forgot about timing. (More naive optimism, that is so me.)

Ah. I found

Before joining Microsoft in 1992, Satya Nadella, a Hyderabad-native,
was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems.

I started at Sun in August 1991, so we didn't overlap much.

It is great to hear from you and I will write more soon.
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Nevah mind; back to the drawing board. But it was logical to ask him. More or less.
 
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Sun Micro, there's another one. Well, kinda. I don't know if it was Sun or Apple who did this first, but they were both doing it for a while back in the 90's. They would take a standard Sony 19" monitor that sold for around $600, slap their own proprietary cable on it and sell it for $1800. Being proprietary you HAD to by that monitor for their system.
 
Matt1970 said:
Sun Micro, there's another one. Well, kinda. I don't know if it was Sun or Apple who did this first, but they were both doing it for a while back in the 90's. They would take a standard Sony 19" monitor that sold for around $600, slap their own proprietary cable on it and sell it for $1800. Being proprietary you HAD to by that monitor for their system.
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I din know that.....but have no doubt it is true. The guy I know is world famous, mad genius cryptologist, he never had anything to do with the retail end of things anywhere. He is MIT all the way.

All greed is BAHD. And what you share....is disgusting.:'(
 
Just realized, I want this new guy to show up on Charlie Rose. Given the unique essence of exchanges with Charlie, we will be able to get a better handle on this guy when he does show up. I want it to be tomorrow.
 
Not to be a bigot, tho I am up front about what I believe in....face it, the guy chose to get an MBA.

I don even hang out with anyone who would choose such.

Most likely, he is a pragmatist, an end justifies the means replicant. Not some creative, renegade visionary.

For me, this don bode well for MS getting outta the quick sand.

Why I ever entertained hope for otherwise, is a whole other story.
 
Just found this from 8 years ago.....
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/satyanadella/

He sounds collegial, pay that no mind......THOUGHTFUL REDUCTION? Seriously? Tell me how that reflects any part of Windows 8.

Does his version of "thoughtful reduction' mean vulgar, cross platform bundling to cover every imaginable base.... at the expensive of responding to the pointed needs of PC owners who use their systems for serious endeavors? Starting with small businesses?

As per W8?

One would guess.....given, he was there during the gestation.
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On the OTHER HAND, I just learned coming upon this:

http://opensource.sys-con.com/node/2894019

He was on Board of Directors THERE (not sure if he still is, but was recent appointment)! AND, it sounds pretty amazing via the grass roots there!
 
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Matt1970 said:
Sun Micro, there's another one. Well, kinda. I don't know if it was Sun or Apple who did this first, but they were both doing it for a while back in the 90's. They would take a standard Sony 19" monitor that sold for around $600, slap their own proprietary cable on it and sell it for $1800. Being proprietary you HAD to by that monitor for their system.
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Our you could have been like most people (not companies) and bought the $10 converts for standard VGA cables...
 
K.....
In 2011, when Nadalla was named to run the Servers and Tools division, retiring CEO Steve Ballmer’s internal email described him as meeting the job requirement for “the right mix of leadership, vision, and hard-core engineering chops.”
Read more: http://www.minyanville.com/sectors/...ly-microsoft/12/6/2013/id/52936#ixzz2s17UUNMU

But consider the source.....sounds like a corporate template/script summation.
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Just sent this to my friend, cause he knows everyone, so I am giving him the assignment to follow up:


Wut do people you know say about this guy? Another Faustian replicant MBA corporate hack/ or something better? Come on....U know everyone. This is important!



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