Can India-born CEO Satya Nadella Revive Microsoft's Fortunes?

[slapshot]

I know. I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Once Pakistan GOVT planed to switch to LINUX but then It didn't happened and never heard about it. I wish they made that move, it will really help us cut the expenses for licenses and will also create awareness about open source platforms. Seriously for most of users they don't even need complete features of an operating systems like Windows 7/ VISTA/Windows 8! There are minimal linux flavors with very friendly interface, lite weight, fast and which can bring your old Pentium III machine to life.

 

[Android]

I am pretty surprised OP didn't dragged caste system in here

The "Wintel" dynasty is being overthrown by hordes representing cloud computing "barbarians and tribesmen" at Apple, Google, Amazon and a whole bunch of other tech companies. Can a Microsoft lifer like Staya Nadella, steeped in Microsoft's established culture, fend off the "barbarian at the gates"?

You clearly have no idea who Satya Nadella is and his previous works and achievements

 

[kak1978]

Can a Microsoft lifer like Staya Nadella, steeped in Microsoft's established culture, fend off the "barbarian at the gates"? If I were a betting man, I'd say No! But let's wait and see.

Who cares if Riaz Haq doesn't think he is a right person for the job. The reason he was picked was because of his success when he was Executive Vice President of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group. Coming to argument about people that he is not Indian enough, If he was not , OP wouldn't have written this bashing article.

 

[RiazHaq]

Intel/MS is going no where there is going to be no fall of empire here infact Intel getting into tablet chip market is going to deliver combined with MS/other windows based devices like tabs/smartphones to wider audience.

Android is not for organizations/business sorry that is just not the right OS, Apple also has traditionally kept itself away after trying so many times but couldn't get into server/large business the market is open to MS it needs to join Intel to work with Mobile platform to establish another era of empire.

MS new CEO is an excellent choice has best track record but please people don't tag him "indian" or what not by both side he has nothing to do with india he left india for better future he is very much american let him be like that his only focus/objectives is to make MS even better.

Both Intel and Microsoft will still be around but there will no Wintel or anything even close to the kind of duopoly that existed in the PC era. ARM and Google don't have the kind of duopoly Wintel did in its time. Mobile and cloud computing market is highly fragmented today with many many players. No one or two companies have a lock on it like Intel and Microsoft did in the PC era.

 

[Manindra]

What did Riaz Haq did in his life

 

[Vinod2070]

You could almost see it coming.

Anyway it is a great achievement for Satya and hopefully he helps revive the future of a great company.

 

[idune]

Just like Citi bank, microsoft will be taken down.

 

[ChennaiDude]

Satya Nadella was born in hyderabad
he is the son of an IAS officer
he served as a member of planning commision(India)
he did his schooling in hyderabad and degree in manipal university

i guess this is enuff to prove who he is.......

secondly.....zindagi mein apne unka naam nahi suna tha......sahi hai,maine bhi nahi suna tha.....jab koi acha kaam karega tabhi woh famous hoga,aur jab famous hoga tabhi aap uska naam sunenge na ........
abhi aap yahan baith kar ******* comment karoge toh aapko koi thodi na pehchanega.........aur apki koom bhi aapke jaise ****** soch rakhti hain......itni choti se baat bhi samajh nahi pati..

He was my Senior from MIT(Manipal Institute of Technology)...Yes I am very proud that he is first of all from India and second of all we went to the same school.

It would only hurt MS. They don't earn much from Countries like Pakistan but in turn small companies/people do write codes that run on MS platefarms. Its a bargain that let them use your tools/platefarm for free which in return indirectly support there business. We are no more in 90s dear! There are decent alternatives to MS operating systems totally free

Is "Platefarms" one of the alternatives?

 

[livingdead]

Just like Citi bank, microsoft will be taken down.

rather turn around... just like citi bank... pandit joined in dec 07 when global financial crisis hit all major banks including citi and got it profitable again.

 

[slapshot]

Is "Platefarms" one of the alternatives?

Operating systems like Ubuntu, CrunchBang, Slax etc. For cloud OS there are Jolicloud or Chrome OS.

 

[pakdefender]

The OPs observation about Wintel is spot on , both Microsoft and Intel are in trouble ... they had things going very well for them when people were buying PCs and Laptops every six months but that era is gone and whether it is Staya Nadella or anyone else , reviving Microsoft is a tough task. My own observation is that when the going gets really tough they goras put a borwnie to work to get things back on track , the brownie can then go dog it out to get the share holders happy and interested in continued investment in the company, if the borwnie gets the job done then then the goras will be back otherwise it all went down because of the brown man.

 

[Hypersonicmissiles]

Just like Citi bank, microsoft will be taken down.

Pepsico with that Indian woman was ruined too.

Having an Indian CEO is sure bet the company will do poorly.

 

[faithfulguy]

Pepsico with that Indian woman was ruined too.

Having an Indian CEO is sure bet the company will do poorly.

Don't be so prejudiced against Indian people. Indians CEOs are some of the brightest people out there. There are the cream of a billion+ people.

 

[SouthDesi]

Another Indian American likely the next surgeon general of the United States

Vivek Murthy has three Ivy degrees and teaches at Harvard Medical School. He's likely the next surgeon general of the United States. He's an Indian-American.

http://gawker.com/senator-tells-the-surgeon-general-nominee-he-knows-some-1516317305

 

[RiazHaq]

Here's an AP piece on Microsoft's CEO selection process:

SAN FRANCISCO -- After compiling a list of more than 100 CEO candidates, Microsoft settled on Satya Nadella a home-grown leader who joined the software maker in the early 1990s. That's back when Google's founders were teenagers and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in elementary school.

Tuesday's hiring of Nadella as Microsoft's CEO after a five-month search is a safe move that's likely to be greeted with sighs of relief around the company's Redmond, Wash. headquarters, industry analysts say. But the methodical, almost predictable decision is likely to reinforce perceptions that Microsoft Corp. is a plodding company reluctant to take risks as it competes against younger rivals who relish going out on a limb.

While Google founder and CEO Larry Page boasts about his company taking "moon shots" and Zuckerberg promises to "move fast and break things," Microsoft has fallen behind the technological curve after underestimating the importance of Internet search more than a decade ago and reacting too slowly to the rise of mobile devices during the past seven years. Meanwhile, the sales of personal computers running on Microsoft's Windows software are shrinking.

Microsoft's malaise may have narrowed the field of up-and-coming visionaries interested in running a company founded in 1975.

Just as Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs would never have considered working at IBM Corp. in the 1980s, today's entrepreneurial whiz kids scoff at Microsoft's overtures.

"Going to work at Microsoft could make it look like you are going back to the dark ages," says Richard Metheny, a management coach for the executive search firm Witt/Kieffer in Chicago. "It's a well-entrenched business that has had trouble lately figuring out how to play in this new world."

Despite its challenges, Microsoft remains a moneymaking machine that sits atop an $84 billion cash pile. That alone should have been enough to tempt technological sharpshooters to take a shot at turning around the company, says Dennis Carrey, vice chairman of executive recruiting firm Korn Ferry and co-author of the book, "Boards That Lead."

Microsoft "is like a car that still has a full tank of gas, but it's just an old model," Carrey says. "There are a lot of great tech executives who yearn for that kind of challenge, especially with a bucket of cash to make acquisitions and do some really fun, cool stuff."

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There was some speculation that Microsoft might be interested in hiring Sundar Pichai, a respected Google executive in charge of the company's Android and Chrome operating systems.

But it's likely that Microsoft would have had trouble persuading a Silicon Valley star to become its CEO. That's because much of Silicon Valley dismisses Microsoft's products as too complicated and expensive. There is also still a residue of resentment from the late 1990s when Microsoft's aggressive attempts to thwart the growth of Web browser pioneer Netscape Communications instigated an antitrust case, a suit filed by the U.S. Justice Department at the urging of a Silicon Valley coalition.

"When it came down to it, I don't think the Microsoft board could find the CEO that fit the profile it really wanted from outside the company," Moorhead says.

Once Microsoft decided to take the insider route, Nadella emerged as an obvious choice, Korn Ferry's Carey says. "Only history will tell us whether it was the right choice."...

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