How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by nailer on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:09PM (#24874818)

> Google Cloud Platform is a huge new product.

Does it define the category? Is Google Cloud 'the' cloud provider? "Just spin up a box on GCP" the default thing for people to do in tech?

> Today's Android is a whole different beast.

Is it? Android 4 (which was around that time) is pretty close to android as it is now.

> Google Home is a new product

And? Is it category defining like maps or Mail or GSuite, did it create something entirely new like GAE did for serverless? Is it the default home assistant? Do people outside tech even know the name 'Google Home'?

> hangouts video was a huge hit for a while

And now it's close to dead. Never reached the heights of Skype or Zoom.

None of these products are category defining.

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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by stickfigure on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:37PM (#24900339)

You seem to be moving the goalpost? "major new product" is a far cry from "defining the category".

That said, Google's voice recognition does "define the category". My iPhone-using friends barely use voice recognition.

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