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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Nadella, Gates, and Ballmer have all admitted to Microsoft’s mobile mistakes.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also botched the implementation of Android on Windows. They just don't understand the market.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outside of Azure, and Business apps they don't really understand any of the other markets they are in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And the only reason those are successful is because they're just very entrenched in large corporations. They're successful if the users are forced to use their stuff, but nobody loves anything Microsoft makes, so they always fail on the consumer side (Xbox and gaming in general being the exception, I guess).

[–] Corkyskog 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

nobody loves anything Microsoft makes

Excel is life. Although I do get annoyed about the data limitations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Excel is their best product. But it literally came out in 1987 and has some of the same limitations… from 1987.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My life would change drastically for the worse without Excel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s true of Xbox too. Two decades and all they have to show for it are the same washed up IPs from 15+ years ago, and a large checkbook. They acquire studios and IPs and bring them down to mediocrity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I guess here it applies as well, nobody loves windows or the Xbox itself, they just love the games that are exclusively there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There aren’t many exclusives, and recently they’ve been bought. Forza is one of the only that come to mind when thinking of in-house.