Reflections on My Career at Microsoft

Re:Reflections on My Career at Microsoft by georgeecollins on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:47PM (#21358570)

Yeah, but the stock didn't go up from when he started to when he finished, which is evidence that the growth that happened during his tenure was all anticipated before he began. Good decisions can reap benefits years in the future, bad ones can take a decade to come to roost. You can say that Apple sales grew during John Scully's tenure. But it is kind of obvious that the company was exploiting a prior period of innovation while failing to innovate (Newton, Pink etc.).

He inherited a company that was incredibly powerful and that power only diminished during his tenure.

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Re:Reflections on My Career at Microsoft by basch on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:59PM (#21359649)

The same applies now to their success. Satya is executing Ballmer's One Microsoft plan. He absolutely deserves credit for some of the reorg he initiated before he stepped away. Combining Office 365, Active Directory, Intune, and Windows 10 Enterprise into a single Microsoft 365 bundle is the icing on that holistic product line effort.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/11/4514160/steve-ballmers-re...

Also of interest in that memo is Amy Hood being put in charge of the Finance Group (truthfully she had already been CFO a couple months when the One Microsoft memo came out), which Satya appears to be getting credit for in the original article. She was appointed CFO a year before Nadella became CEO.

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