[gamesbrainiac]

This is the same guy that forced XBOX to increase profit margins to 30% and therefore destroyed any hope that Xbox would be a legitimate choice for gamers going forward.

This is the same guy that shoved AI down the throats of millions of Windows users that forced me to just turn off Windows updates and add bazzite in dual boot.

I remember a long time ago I was talking to an executive that worked at a startup that was eventually acquired by Cisco. After the acquisition, the executive team got coaches to train them to be "inspirational" leaders. One thing that was common was adding a quote from say Marcus Arelius in the signature of their emails to make them sound wiser.

We need to stop this hero worship. Microsoft built a moat, and capitalized on it. They used their connections to block others from coming into the fray.

I don't care what their theory of success is, their definition is cancerous; a malignant one.

[karim79]

Interesting. So Steve Ballmer saved Xbox from the RROD, and then went on to appoint a dude who would go on to make Ballmer even richer. And the new guy then goes on to destroy Xbox once again.

I wonder what this will look like in 20 years from now.

[baal80spam]

I'm no MS lover, but this is the same guy that increased the MS share price tenfold.

[carefree-bob]

He temporarily increased MS share price tenfold, at the cost of jeapordizing the long term viability of the company.

In 10 years we may well look back at Nadela as the "the man who killed Microsoft" or at least "the man who destroyed Microsoft's position as a top 10 tech firm", and shareholders wont be too happy.

[wormius]

When WSL/WSL2 was released and there was a big open source push I actually thought they were righting the ship, then this AI stuff came along (and Win11 UX departure and "Free" OS & ads everywhere) and realized it's the same old MS.

I laugh because if this guy had any foresight, he wouldn't have to beg users to love AI, it would sell itself.

[kjsingh]

To be fair - he destroyed all Microsoft except Azure

[carefree-bob]

I wonder about that, and decided that Azure is infrastructure first, and software second. MS is destroying/has destroyed their ability to write software, but are still maintaining infrastructure.

But I wonder how many people will be using Azure once the market moves away from windows software. I don't think they have any edge other than windows tie-ins (e.g. Azure ID)

[drcongo]

It's hard to destroy a flaming pile of trash.

[mrbungie]

Well, this is a good example of "Shareholder value != customer value".

[wolvoleo]

Als also shareholder value != Positive effect on society

[gamesbrainiac]

You know what? I bet if you got rid of stock buybacks, there'd be more consequences for making a shit product.

[markstos]

Same guy who touted Microsoft's progress on climate goals, then went all-in on AI.

[MrDresden]

Pretty much all of the major tech stocks have risen by 10x since 2014.

[alsetmusic]

> I'm no MS lover, but this is the same guy that increased the MS share price tenfold.

How does that improve things for customers? This ridiculous affinity for increasing the stock price at the expense of all else is why so many tech products are degrading. Google, MS, Apple, etc.

[bdangubic]

the CEO answers to shareholders, not the customers. being a public company is a bitch…

[alsetmusic]

They don't have to. They choose to. All sayings about it being a requirement are wrong.

[gamesbrainiac]

Pretty much all tech stock has 10xed over the past decade. However, the fact that this is being used to justify anything is a problem. The financialized economy has become so powerful that it can treat the real economy with impunity.

If there are no consequences to prioritizing shareholder value at the expense of product utility or ecosystem value, then we are going to get less value from the products that we purchase over time.

This is why the economy doesn't work anymore. We've been swimming in toxic waters for so long that we think it is completely normal to prioritize shareholder value at the expense of everything else; greed is good.

[ekjhgkejhgk]

Finish your thought. MS share price tenfold - what do you conclude from what? What did you want to say?

[baal80spam]

> Finish your thought. MS share price tenfold - what do you conclude from what? What did you want to say?

So he did his job.

[dgxyz]

Is it a software and infrastructure company or an investment scam?

[shimman]

The only thing the elites and rich care about are what people think of them, they do not care about the health of people or how society is dealing with inequality; no they just want you to think that they are smart and worthy of respect.

Hence why they spend so much time on vanity.

Please don't give it to them. They are not special. They are not unique. The vast majority of people on this Earth can do an equivalent job if you gave them the same amount of resources (in this case a monopoly worth trillions).