Re:Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Comes to Red Hat Summit
by la_barba on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:06PM
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Your claim about MS not focusing on their retail side might be accurate, but that in and of itself doesn't really mean anything. The stock market (i know .. i know.. ) seems to have accepted MS's "broken" model, and its stock price has tripled (or something like that) under Nadella. Certainly, its not a company that people seem to think is broken in any mainstream way of thinking about a business.
Re:Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Comes to Red Hat Summit
by baybal2 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:13PM
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> The stock market (i know .. i know.. ) seems to have accepted MS's "broken" model, and its stock price has tripled (or something like that) under Nadella
Well, as it did under Ballmer, under same circumstances. He also did pretty much the same — doubling down on milking plumpy corporate clients while streamlining the business in overall + doing some disasterous acquisitions which were nevertheless welcomed by Wall street analysts
Re:Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Comes to Red Hat Summit
by la_barba on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:08PM
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Well, I don't know what you are referring to as "it", but the stock price movement wasn't the same under Ballmer...which might be a bit unfair to him since he came in after
the .com boom. https://imgur.com/a/46fnc4P
>He also did pretty much the same — doubling down on milking plumpy corporate clients while streamlining the business in overall
I take it you think that this is a bad thing?
I, however, don't see him doing anything to that "broken model." Since Ballmer left, Microsoft actually got even more dependent on plumpy "corporate" clients. It just people who once self hosted AD now got upsold on running their AD and other corporate software on Azure.