Satya Nadella Named Microsoft CEO 293
Nerval's Lobster writes "As widely expected after last week's rumors, Satya Nadella has been named the new CEO of Microsoft. Nadella is Microsoft's third CEO, after co-founder Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. He's been with the company for more than twenty years, eventually becoming executive vice president of its Cloud and Enterprise division; Nadella and his team were responsible for the creation of 'Cloud OS,' the platform that powers Microsoft's large-scale cloud services such as SkyDrive, Azure, and Office 365. Under his guidance, Microsoft's revenue from cloud services has grown by several billion dollars over the past few years. In his email to employees, Nadella said that he was 'humbled' by his appointment, and that he had asked Bill Gates to act as a close adviser in the months and years ahead." He devoted much of the rest of the email "to explaining his philosophy of technology, and how that will ultimately influence his leadership. 'The opportunity ahead will require us to reimagine a lot of what we have done in the past for a mobile and cloud-first world, and do new things,' he added. 'We are the only ones who can harness the power of software and deliver it through devices and services that truly empower every individual and every organization.' A lot of tech companies would disagree the assertion that Microsoft is the 'only' company capable of merging hardware and software into forms that businesses and consumers find appealing, but Nadella must do his best to reassert his company's position as a technology leader. Nadella indicated near the end of his email that he would follow through on the 'One Microsoft' strategy formulated under Ballmer, which includes a massive reorganization currently underway." Reader rjmarvin notes that "Nadella will take over as CEO immediately, allowing Steve Ballmer to retire early," and reader SmartAboutThings says that "John Thompson, a lead independent director for the Board of Directors, will take over the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors that Gates held."
Office 365 (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, after being responsible for Office 365, what could possibly go wrong?
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They'll release another product that protects them from being "squeezed out" by Google's growing cloud computing services? Oh no, what a terrible business that would be. Better they keep putting out $500 Office suites that everyone has realised they don't need to own.
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Better they keep putting out $500 Office suites that everyone has realised they don't need to own.
Yeah, because renting them for $50 a month makes much more sense.
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I'd rather not buy Office at all and use Google Docs, but I'm sure MS is happy to take $50 from me now and again when a project demands something more sophisticated. The alternative is that I stop giving them any money altogether, and while that'd be great for me, I doubt MS particularly wants to get behind that.
Re:Office 365 (Score:5, Insightful)
Because storing your private/confidential information in a cloud is a stupid idea, because you don't really have control over your data.
Anything you store in Microsoft's cloud is subject to the PATRIOT Act and can be demanded with a secret warrant.
And, as much as Microsoft likes to talk about Scroogling, you can bet your ass they are doing the exact same thing, and if they say otherwise they're lying to you.
Lots of people love heroin too, that doesn't make it good for you.
Re:Office 365 (Score:5, Insightful)
Because storing your private/confidential information in a cloud is a stupid idea, because you don't really have control over your data.
In a lot of cases, yes. That doesn't mean that this particular implementation of a cloud office system is a poor one, nor reflect badly on it's exec, who was doing the job asked.
Your tinfoil hat is on too tight (Score:5, Insightful)
Because storing your private/confidential information in a cloud is a stupid idea, because you don't really have control over your data.
I think your tinfoil hat is on too tight. There are plenty of cases where the data isn't all that confidential. It's not really all that hard to store confidential things locally or offline while using cloud storage for less sensitive items. We use Google Drive in our company to store work instructions and forms. If someone at NSA want's to look at those then they can go right ahead. It's nothing that requires deep levels of secrecy but it does require efficient controlled distribution and multiple person access.
Re:Your tinfoil hat is on too tight (Score:5, Insightful)
But it doesn't work if it's not tight. :-P
I've worked in private industry, and I've done consultant work with government -- and any non-US government or large industry using Microsoft cloud services is opening themselves up for problems.
The entire world that isn't the US should avoid any of Microsoft's cloud services. So, if you're an American entity, go ahead and use them. If you're not, and you use them, you're an idiot and your data will be potentially used illegally with neither your knowledge or consent.
So the easiest solution is to not use the service at all.
Re:Your tinfoil hat is on too tight (Score:5, Funny)
> If someone at NSA want's to look at those
Is that a plural? So why the apostrophe, moron?
You are the moron I think. Consider: The NSA is so bloody possessive; the apostrophe is warranted in my book!
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Re:Office 365 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Office 365 (Score:5, Insightful)
OK before you even start kicking the cloud.
Talk about the idea of storing your information in a propitiatory format using a subscription based software that you do not own.
"Oh your millions of documents are all in our closed source format now? It would be a shame of our subscription service quadrupled in price... Then again the stand alone versions are even more expensive... That's OK however, you will only have to pay us monthly... for forever."
Once you get by that stupid part, then you can go on to the stupid part about cloud based services... Also note that 99.99% of all those services are hosted in the USA where the NSA and every other government agency will be helping themselves to all your private data for whatever purposes they deem fit,
SO yeah, very quickly 3 good reasons never to use, and that is before you even look at the actual price, software features, etc...
For business? (Score:3)
Anything you store in Microsoft's cloud is subject to the PATRIOT Act and can be demanded with a secret warrant.
So what? It's just business data.
If it were personal data, sure I might not put documents in the cloud (although ha ha, I use Dropbox all the time).
Basically if you don't like the government looking into your cloud data, you are better off trying to fight against that than to stop using networks to hold data, and losing all of the advantages that can confer.
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So a European company should put their sensitive commercial data in a US hosted cloud, so the American government can pass it on to US corporations? You gotta be joking!
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"...but you know, $99/yr for the latest-and-greatest version on 5 PCs, which covers my whole family and my laptop (not to mention the ability to move licenses around very easily and the ability to temporarily run it somewhere else if needed) isn't a bad deal at all as it turns out."
It is a bad deal when compared to LibreOffice that doesn't have a limit on number of PCs, and doesn't require a subscription/year amount of money. Their updates are available anytime you want, too.
Re:Office 365 (Score:5, Informative)
The whole concept of running a text processor on a remote server when you have a super computer from 20 years ago inside your pocket is just so stupid it prompts for decapitation. Also well deserved slavery.
WTF are you talking about? Office 365 is subscription office for individuals (with other perks like some cloud storage and Skype credits) as well as hosted server products for businesses. You get the full Office suite, the same binaries you get if you buy the boxed version. They have been playing around with a web based version to allow editing when you are on the road or on a guest PC, but that is not the focus of the product at all.
Ohboy Skype credits! (Score:4, Insightful)
Office 365 is subscription office for individuals (with other perks like some cloud storage and Skype credits)
Because that's just what I need when I'm typing a business letter. Videochat.
If Microsoft ran a restaurant each sandwich would come with a bowling ball.
Re:Office 365 (Score:5, Insightful)
The whole concept of running a text processor on a remote server when you have a super computer from 20 years ago inside your pocket is just so stupid it prompts for decapitation. Also well deserved slavery.
WTF are you talking about? Office 365 is subscription office for individuals (with other perks like some cloud storage and Skype credits) as well as hosted server products for businesses.
Spoken like a true shill. In that you completely blew off the GP's point about the entire concept of running a text processor on a remote server being patently absurd and instead just drove straight on forward with the marketing spiel. Well-done, EvilSS! Your bonus will be signed by Mr. Nadella himself this month!
And again I find myself asking: WTF are you talking about? In what way does "running a text processor on a remote server" have ANYTHING to do with Office 365?
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The idea of paying a subscription for word processing is stupid.
That depends. Assuming you are going to pay for an Office suite vs use open source or free products, it can make very good financial sense for some people. If you need licenses for more than one machine and/or you like to upgrade often, then the 365 subscription can be a less expensive option. Yes, if you stop paying you can't keep the software but again, but that is something you need to consider before buying.
For example, I use 365 for Office Professional Plus and Visio. I have it installed on 4 PCs
I wouold argue (Score:5, Funny)
that Steve Ballmer retiring now is not 'early'. About a decade late.
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Re:I wouold argue (Score:5, Funny)
Will Satya Nadella support developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers though?
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Will Satya Nadella support developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers though?
or vagina.
Re:I wouold argue (Score:5, Funny)
He's not retiring; he has simply outsourced his chair-tossing to an Indian guy.
Re:I wouold argue (Score:5, Funny)
I disagree; I think Ballmer should have been retained as CEO indefinitely.
If they really had to replace him, they should have picked whoever came up with the Microsoft Songsmith commercial.
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This is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The summary itself says it: " he had asked Bill Gates to act as a close adviser in the months and years ahead."
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he would follow through on the 'One Microsoft' strategy formulated under Ballmer,
So put simply; he's gonna keep going down he same route as Ballmer; and Bill Gates will still run the company on a day to day basis.
Microsoft will continue to sink; but Gates and Ballmer would suddenly become 'good corporate citizens' and a poor, powerless, benami
Doomed (Score:4, Insightful)
Hate Ballmer all you want but that dude knew how to make money.
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just not for his shareholders.
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Which is the only thing a company should do.
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Priority 1 - ensuring long-term economic security.
Priority 2 - everything else.
which is what the textbooks say, yet it's not what happens in reality. Hence the frequent economic slumps that Capitalist theory says shouldn't be periodic.
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no, a company is supposed to do what its owners want (the owners are the shareholders).
That most CEOs think the company belongs to them, and follow through with whatever crazy personal schemes they like is just a symptom of poor oversight from said shareholders, but that doesn't mean a company exists to do anything other than enrich its owners. Typically enriching owners is best done by making great products, but then many others do it by screwing the crap out of a locked-in customer base.
Think of that next
Re:Doomed (Score:5, Insightful)
At the same time they poisoned their own corporate environment and created a ton of churn in their lower ranks, bleeding young new talent to rivals and startups.
Re:Doomed (Score:5, Insightful)
You are 100% bang on when you say " Let's try this! No, this! No, that! " -- Microsoft is running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
It is because MS doen't have a freaking clue about *good* User Interface or User Experience. To understand UI you need to understand TWO things:
1. S/N and
2. Flow.
Here is the perfect example of Microsoft being total fucktards: google: visual studio 2012 menu all caps
https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
We use uppercase and lowercase in books to make it EASIER to read. Reading off a screen is already harder on the eyes why the hell would you make it even more so?!?! Oh, and let's get rid of those underlines so people can actually *see* and *learn* the hotkeys / keyboard accelerators. Let's dumb the UI down to full retard mode because how dare anyone suggest you can design a UI for novices and the power user!
Microsoft will never understand that you need to take advantage of the strengths AND be aware of the weaknesses of the hardware to massage the Software + Hardware + User Experience. Microsoft has all the arrogance of Apple without understanding why Apple makes some of its changes. (Apple is by no means a saint, but they tend to have a more consistent User Experience.)
> they poisoned their own corporate environment
Yup! Stack Ranking has to be the dumbest move ever. As a company you want to motivate your employees; it is also import to not demotivate them.
Again, MS is clueless.
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Microsoft has been floundering for the past decade, riding the momentum they built up in the 80's and 90's but never successfully adding to it.
And Microsoft's conception of "adding to it" is always "extend the Windows monopoly into new markets". Which is why they flushed $8 billion down the toilet trying to establish a console monopoly, and Sony just came back to own the segment this generation anyway so MSFT never will get its money back. And then Steam defected, so Microsoft is now in danger of losing control of the PC game franchise that it stupidly left to rot when it tried to dominate the console turf. Just Brilliant. The winners in this were
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Hasn't that been the strategy at most companies for the last decade? Other than a few sensations like Apple, most companies have been successful at slashing costs through outsourcing and downsizing, rather than spectacular innovations.
I would say Apple and Google have both been innovating quite a bit, and they are Microsoft's two biggest rivals. Compared to them MS has been standing still.
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Hate Ballmer all you want but that dude knew how to make money.
I would rather state that Microsoft was profitable, despite Ballmer was at the helm.
Re:Doomed (Score:5, Insightful)
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The guy is nothing but a used car salesman
Actually, used software principles salesman. Close enough.
In other words ... (Score:5, Insightful)
In other words, Microsoft is going to proceed with a vision which may or may not be of interest to consumers, and once again tell us what we want instead of listening to us.
So now the same idiot who was in charge of XBox being an always on-line nuisance is going to ram this philosophy through the rest of the product lines.
They might find this to their detriment.
Re:In other words ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Cloud services is one of the few parts of MS that is both making money and growing. I'd say that's a pretty strong signal about who their customers actually are, and what those customers actually want.
You want MS to be Sony, Nintendo, or Apple. Unfortunately the dream of that MS died when the skunk works team behind the original Xbox were squeezed out. Better they become a productive business company than continue as a half-assed consumer one.
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In other words, Microsoft is going to proceed with a vision which may or may not be of interest to consumers, and once again tell us what we want instead of listening to us.
Consumers don't really know what they want in new technology until they are shown it. Microsoft's problem has not been making it's own product plans, but making bad product plans.
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To be honest, if I was the CEO I wouldn't listen to "us" either. Why should I? We (I guess the collective consumers and customers) have no idea what we actually want.
Except perhaps "cool free stuff" and at most "innovation" which doesn't really mean anything at all.
He's been heading one of the divisions that has made most money lately -
Re:In other words ... (Score:5, Insightful)
don't see Steve's Apple doing much listening either
Steve Jobs, also, told us what we want. The difference: he was right in what he chose to offer.
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If MS asked you lot what the hell it is you wanted, most of you would say "we just want Windows 7, booting as fast as Windows 8 does".
Um, yes. Except Windows 7 already boots as fast as Window 8 if you use hibernate instead of powering down, like it does.
What would have been wrong with that? Exactly what 'innovation' has Window 8 brought that anyone actually wanted?
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That is not to say that Windows 8 (metro/modern UI) is great, just that asking people what they want will always yield them asking for the same and not allow any room for innovation.
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...and GPs point is if they collectively listened to that kind of thing, we'd still be in DOS because OMG clicking on things is different AAAAHHH.
1. I can't remember anyone saying 'Uh, Windows 3 sucks, DOS is so much better with all its arcane key combinations'.
2. Macs had been around for years, and everyone knew DOS was a clunker in comparison.
Who in their right mind wants to be forced to use a touch screen on a desktop PC with a keyboard and mouse?
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Did the Windows 95 Start Menu everyone seems to love nowadays (for some reason) come about because MS started asking people how they wanted their desktop to work?
no, generally Microsoft brings things about by looking at successful products elsewhere and copying them. Badly.
Reimagine! (Score:2)
...require us to reimagine a lot of what we have done
Following the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, where cylons look like humans, the reimagined Microsoft CEO will lose the borg mask.
Market voice (Score:2)
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Why wait till tomorrow? The market is open now, and already has the news. MSFT is flat, so the market's opinion is a big fat "meh!"
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An indication on Nadella's "rating" from a business perspective will be reflected by the MS share quotation tomorrow.
The market really didn't react much, but then again Nadella has been the rumored front runner for a few weeks now so it's really no surprise to anyone. I think everyone is going to wait until he starts making some announcements on direction before they react.
IIT? (Score:5, Interesting)
Give him a chance (Score:5, Interesting)
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He isn't tossing chairs just yet.
I do have high hopes for this guy. MS, though not as flashy as other computer companies, has a lot of directions it can go for growth/innovation. They sit on a lot of technologies, and pretty much own the enterprise. MS had some bumps last year, but the main reason they emerged profitable was the price hike on their server products.
Re:Give him a chance (Score:5, Insightful)
They are a 300 billion dollar company and between the 4th and 6th largest company in world (depends on fluctuating stock prices). I realize you probably get all of your info from Slashdot comments, but in the real world they are doing quite well.
Re:Give him a chance (Score:5, Insightful)
Honestly, I think it's really a mixed bag. Microsoft is of course continuing to make money, and some of their recent products have shown noteworthy improvement. On the other hand, it's been clear that they've been floundering a bit for years. They've had several major blunders and screw-ups that would have buried any company that didn't start out with a monopoly in a lucrative market. That is, if they hadn't had a steady income from Windows/Office/Exchange, from customers who pretty well have to buy those products whether they like it or not, then they wouldn't be able to stay in business selling their other products. And even those products have been mishandled.
But you're right, yes, they continue to make massive amounts of money from those products in spite of the mishandling. But "doing quite well"? I would say that if they were doing quite well, they wouldn't have dropped Ballmer.
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Let the hatred commence... (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been on Slashdot long enough to know that unless Linus accepted the CEO spot, whoever got it was going to get a lot of hate here.
The only thing I can say is that Microsoft is in dire need of engineering, and they promoted an engineer to the top spot. I think that's refreshing. What happens from here on out depends on what the roadmap looks like, but if the Surface Pro 2 is any indication, they are actually going down a good path on the hardware end of things. Time will tell on the software end.
Re:Let the hatred commence... (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been on Slashdot long enough to know that unless Linus accepted the CEO spot, whoever got it was going to get a lot of hate here.
If Linus did become CEO of Microsoft I suspect you would see more hate than ever before!
Re:Let the hatred commence... (Score:4, Interesting)
Good Start, breaking bad quickly once the rest of the announcement is read!
Unfortunately, Gates and Ballmer left, but they are both mega shareholders, still on the board, and whoppee, Bill Gates is coming back to be more involved in new products "working one day a week" as a rumor out of Redmond says an "anonymous source."
The quote "'We are the only ones who can harness the power of software " is emblematic of the arrogance and lack of analysis of competitor's products, considering that most products now are integrated hardware products.
How come I've already lost interest in what Satya says.
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How come I've already lost interest in what Satya says.
Maybe coz Satya is an Indian? People at high places in Microsoft have been blurting inanities for decades now; and still the Press lap it all up; and even /. debates these sweet-nothings.
Never mind Nedalla, why is Gates stepping down? (Score:5, Interesting)
Chairman is a mostly ceremonial role so the only reason I can see for him stepping down is that he can see the cliff coming and wants to get off before the company goes over. Either that or he thinks his image has been so poisoned by Ballmer that he suspects he needs to go to make the company's image bounce back.
Very strange.
Re:Never mind Nedalla, why is Gates stepping down? (Score:5, Insightful)
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A CEO wants to have the ability to potentially change the course of the company, including, potentially, affecting the sacred cows that inevitably accumulate in any long-term successful business. That can mean reassigning/firing key people who may, in the CEO's eyes, be blocking change. Cancelling beloved pet projects. Forming alliances with former enemies.
The last thing a CEO wants is a Chairman (who may have some limited formal power, but often exerts a lot of informal influence on the Board and key execs
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Yeah , except the Chairman & board appoints the CEO - not the other way around. Aside from that he's the largest individual shareholder in MS so no one inside the company - outside investors sure - is going to tell him what to do.
Chairman (Score:3)
Chairman is a mostly ceremonial role so the only reason I can see for him stepping down is that he can see the cliff coming and wants to get off before the company goes over
If the person holding the position of Chairman of the Board is acting as a figurehead then they are Doing It Wrong. Chairman of any public company is FAR from a ceremonial role.
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yeah, but Gates told him to say that.
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No one "asks" a corporate chairman to quit and become a "tech advisor" instead. They either choose to do it or they're told to do it - and no one is going to tell Bill Gates what to do in the company he founded and is still biggest shareholder in.
Only MS? (Score:2)
The main thing I can think of that makes Microsoft uniquely position for anything is its semi-monopoly status. Is he arguing that they'll use that to take over a new market?
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It was an internal email, intended to calm the waters in a time of change... I don't think he would have come out and said, "Well, we've got stiff competition in both the mobile and server markets, and we've really fumbled the ball in the past with things like Microsoft Bob, the Zune, Windows ME, Vista, and the Windows 8 UI, but please don't send your resume to Google just yet..."
Congratulations (Score:2)
Now, can I please have Windows 9 with the Windows 7 and Windows Classic UI as options?? It's literally the only reason why I'm not switching -- some of the Windows 8 UI is nice, but I can't stand the 2D desktop interface from Windows 2.0.
Seriously, the best thing that could be done for Windows right now is not to dump Metro, but to put it on tablets where it belongs and not force desktop users to buy into the whole touch-first thing.
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Now, can I please have Windows 9 with the Windows 7 and Windows Classic UI as options??
Actually there is a chance of exactly that happening.
Could be the "least bad" move (Score:5, Interesting)
I've met Satya. It was several years ago, as part of a larger groups of VCs who regularly met Microsoft execs. He comes across as technically knowledgeable, smart, decent "presence" and leadership. He didn't strike me as visionary, but that's hard to judge when you're in a group that's being given the corporate line.
Knowing a little about the Microsoft culture, and having seen it over the past 20+ years, I personally think that an outsider would have a horrible time. First, in a company that is strictly a technocracy (and that comes from Bill himself), a non-technical outsider would be derided and would have a very tough time. A Gerstner->IBM type of hire probably wouldn't work. A technical outsider would still have to deal with the pretty inbred internal culture.
We've seen disastrous "shake the company up with outsiders" hires at HP, Yahoo (not Marissa, the, um, previous errors), Motorola, Nokia and others. Satya is probably, IMHO, a good hire, he knows the culture, and he has to simultaneously manage transitions in various product lines, and keep the money engine going. Remember, while many people talk as if Microsoft is dead and irrelevant, just look around you at almost any conference, or on a flight, and see how many people are using Windows and/or Office. And Microsoft is still worth around a third of a TRILLION dollars. A decent chunk of the US population invests in Microsoft, directly or through funds. A CEO can't take big risks with that market cap.
I wish him the best. He's got a lot to do.
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I also wish him the best and agree he has a lot to do. But he's just made it a lot harder on himself by volunteering to attach the boat anchor of Bill Gates around his ankle before starting the race.
Lots of people have said the whole culture of "do anything but touch Office/Windows cash cows" led to a lot of the dysfunction, and that was very much the doing of Gates and Ballmer. In fact, at one point - don't know if that's how it played out - people were complaining that with Gates on the hiring panel the
Politics (Score:3)
But he's just made it a lot harder on himself by volunteering to attach the boat anchor of Bill Gates around his ankle before starting the race.
I wouldn't read too much in the public politics. My guess is that he's just playing nice. No reason to burn bridges needlessly. With Gates leaving as chairman, Satya will (probably) have a relatively free hand. If Gates is off the board then he can be publicly nice but ignore him behind the scenes.
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I love your analysis. The history of tech (and, for all I know, non-tech) companies is sadly littered with failures caused by founders who couldn't face significant change. A founder's ego and self-worth are often very tied to the ideas that (s)he grew into a big company.
Ken Olsen at DEC famously decried Unix as "snake oil" (ok, maybe not COMPLETELY wrong) and drove the company out of business with proprietary, closed systems.
Ray Noorda at Novell hung on a very long time after his tragic health issues rende
Except, of course, Microsoft is not a "technocracy (Score:3)
Except, of course, Microsoft is not a "technocracy", and it hasn't been that for a very long time. Let me remind you, for the past decade the company was run by a completely non-technical guy with a sales background. At Microsoft the fast track to the management ladder is to become a program manager (PM for short), or to be one right from the start. PMs promote and hire still more PMs, to the point where you get 1:1 PM/Dev ratio, and they do nothing but report status to one another.
Therein lies just one of
wait for it... (Score:5, Funny)
Unclear on why Gates is stepping down as Chairman (Score:3)
Elop now in charge of Xbox, Surface, WinPhone. (Score:4, Funny)
MS logo-icon (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:NOOOOOOOOO (Score:5, Funny)
Because he would sink the ship, as he did with Nokia.
Re:NOOOOOOOOO (Score:4, Funny)
Well, we already knew he has a mental illness.
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Re:NOOOOOOOOO (Score:5, Funny)
Agreed. For one, I hoped that Microsoft was took over by a woman, which could mean that finally someone who cares about the look-and-feel is in control of the company. By the way, he's Indian, so it looks like it's a normal name there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
And people complain management is never outsourced
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Sorry, the decimal system was being used in other places than India over 3000 years ago.
And india is hardly a great use of numbers -- paying 10,00,000 rather than 1,000,000 rupees for something. Non standard and confusing.
Re:NOOOOOOOOO (Score:5, Insightful)
We need Elop, not Nadella!
No worries - Elop will still be well rewarded for his efforts. Expect a new VP in MSFT soon.
(I only wish this were a conspiracy theory...)
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Re:"humbled"? (Score:5, Insightful)
Now, did you really need that explained to you, or were you just running your mouth?
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I think he needs to read more.
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Google Books Search [google.com]
Re:"humbled"? (Score:4, Funny)
(C) He thinks that being made CEO is a punishment for some mistake he's made in his current job.
Or maybe a past life
Re:"humbled"? (Score:5, Funny)
To be humbled, to be made to feel small or modest. Pretty standard bit of English. Seems a natural reaction to being put into a massively auspicious position. You're not a robot powered by a 1900s dictionary and a copy of Stunk and White-Out are you?
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> (C) He thinks that being made CEO is a punishment for some mistake he's made in his current job.
That's known as the "Peter Principle" or "Dilbert Principle" ;-)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... [wikipedia.org]
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He's writing content that Slashdot likes to read, and then submitting it to Slashdot, where Slashdot users decide to read it? That son of a bitch.