[talad]

Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years through short-term number-massaging actions at the cost of their competent engineers and core product development.

Nadella isn't making a particularly strong case for MS either with his seeming distaste for any product of theirs that isn't either mobile or cloud-based (like the ones where they actually have a monopoly to build off and no competition worth speaking of), which seems to arise from that 'chasing growth numbers' mindset.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

Microsoft products? "Windows is a service" is the word now, as firmly stated by a recent message demanding a PC reboot.

(The first sentence was "Windows is a service and updates are a normal part of keeping it running smoothly.")

[cat199]

to their "credit", this doesn't actually mean anything given the msft ability to misuse language consistently to make it sound more magical like

[eip]

>Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years

So she did exactly what Google paid her to do. Eliminate a competitor.

How dumb do you have to be to hire a CEO from high in the ranks of your biggest rival?

[crispytx]

Yeah she was terrible. Their homepage still sucks, freezes up my browser all the time.

[reacweb]

I am not in America, but when she arrived, I was very curious to see how she could revived such a dying zombie. Clients and engineers were leaving as hell. IMHO, she has done a lot to reduce the hemorrhage and make it attractive again.

[jonknee]

> IMHO, she has done a lot to reduce the hemorrhage and make it attractive again.

What are you talking about? She's no longer employed and Yahoo has been sold off to Verizon...

[reacweb]

I replied to the rewrite of history of yahoo, in particular that yahoo was healthy before Marissa Meyer arrived. IMHO, she had a positive effect on yahoo during her presence.