How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by ogre_codes on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:38PM (#24871284)

Airpods/ Beats/ Watch is a $25 Billion/ year business with 40%/ YoY growth. Neither product existed when Jobs was alive.

That's something Nadella hasn't even managed, let alone Ballmer.

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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by jayd16 on Friday October 23, 2020 @01:13PM (#24871662)

Azure seems to have made $12B in Q3 2020 and that didn't exist when Jobs was alive.

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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by ogre_codes on Friday October 23, 2020 @01:22PM (#24871753)

So Nadella is half as effective as Cook?

More seriously, I shouldn't have put the comparison to Nadella in there at all. They are both great CEOs.

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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by cryptica on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:27PM (#24874979)

Exactly, Satya Nadella is an awesome leader. Who is to say Tim Cook could have taken all these difficult challenges which MSFT was facing at the time? It's 100% speculation.

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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by ogre_codes on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:41PM (#24876510)

> Who is to say Tim Cook could have taken all these difficult challenges which MSFT was facing at the time?

Cook probably wouldn't have ever been a good fit for Microsoft. His expertise is in physical products logistics.

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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by jayd16 on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:40PM (#24875092)

Look again. Quarterly vs yearly numbers.

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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by ogre_codes on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:39PM (#24876502)

You've missed the point here. This isn't a zero sum game.

Nadella is a great CEO.

Cook is a great CEO.

They've both done a good job running their respective companies. Which is better is endlessly debatable.

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