Posted on 05/23/2015 8:02:38 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
What do Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and your average Silicon Valley startup founder have in common?
Simple: Both of them are more interested in a lot of people using their products than they are in chasing after revenue.
That's according to Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson, who reported to Nadella for three years when he served as president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Division before becoming CEO in 2014.
"Revenue is a lagging indicator, usage is a leading indicator," Nadella likes to say, according to Anderson.
Which is to say that if Microsoft does have a new attitude, it's because Nadella is less concerned about protecting its existing businesses and more concerned about making sure people actually use the stuff they buy from Microsoft.
Just like a Silicon Valley startup, Nadella's expectation is that if you double down on making products that customers really like, revenue will follow. But by that same token, if Microsoft ignores what its customers want, revenue maybe wouldn't dip this quarter or the next, but the fall is inevitable.
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That depends on the level of your ability to be comfortable within the means you already have and that needed to meet those needs.
When you are free from mundane personal monetary considerations, perhaps there is some validity in thinking about long term corporate goals with respect to overall improvement against transient indicators like sales, or revenue to make the nut on stock prices and dividends.
Those that are in a position to do this free from personal financial consideration have to potential to do a lot of good. However, based on its founder’s performance, I’d say that’s bad because he’s nothing but a freaking rich ideological zealot with the money to back it up. IOW, there’s not much substantive good in that aspect.
Nadella is a 1000% improvement over Ballmer.
Indeed. I plan on upgrading to Win10 as soon as it’s offered to me.
Windows dominates the desktop, but continually fails to move to mobile platforms. Example? OWA mobile app is not available to *.outlook and *.live emails accounts - must be an Office 365 subscriber to use it. If they want folks to use their products, make it easier....I believe their are going this direction with Azure, but it's a work in progress.
I have waited for 3 years to buy a great Windows-phone. Upgraded this week and again, the Win-Phone tile interface failed me - could not find basic apps like email, browser, etc. Apple won my business again in the mobile arena.
Free upgrades to Windows 10 for XP and 7 users (for one year) was also a good move.
He certainly seems to be more interested in generating goodwill than Ballmer. Windows 10 looks like it should be a knock-out system. Like others are saying, making it free for 7 and 8 users is great. Also reducing the pricing of Windows for cheap mini notebooks was a good move too.
Free upgrade if you have Windows 7 or 8 : )
Yes...I know :)
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