Did Microsoft products get better after Nadella?
Random passing thought but in the 2000s Msft products had some issues like windows would randomly get blue screens, rrod for Xbox 360s, and disaster launches like Vista, ME, Zune. After Nadella though, haven’t really seen this many issues arise from Microsoft products so what did he change for this to happen?
Windows is on steady decline esp after apple silicon. Office too though Outlook is still the state of the art. Azure is what turned things around for them. Vista issues were overblown, I had it from launch till the next version and it was fine. It just upped the hw reqs so pissed off those w/ outdated PC’s
msft image also improved generally, win 10 was a big improvement over 7, so was 11. Azure turned from "windows server but cloud" into real competition without completely relying on vendor lock in. it could have come naturally, but it could also have been due to structural and cultural changes.
This whole perspective and comparing windows to say Mac os, is wrong. The former is os for a broad set of hardware. Whatever it does it has to deal with backward compatibility across all set of supported brands. It does not have a competitor in that market. Mac is a different product focused on best experience given the tightly integrated hardware. Agree with everything else. Oh and I have worked in all Linux world a lot before windows. There are classes of products for which there is no alternate. E.g. try telling a big game studio to ditch visual studio for their game builds and move to anything else and they would laugh you off. Servers, yes Linux is amazing at.
Yeah, current windows is so much better than windows 95
Yes.
No they got more expensive
Hey knows how to market !! Sell bad apples - how ? Depends on who sells them Openai hype and azure played a role
Yes Nadella fixed the blue screens.
Microsoft’s products/services were chaotic before Nadella. No vision. M365, Azure, Windows were all buggy, lacking feature sets when compared to competitors. The pricing was low though. After Nadella, Microsoft’s quality improved dramatically and products/services were better than the competition. Pricing went up by a lot though. In short, Nadella is delivering exactly what the Wall Street wanted. Nothing wrong. I’d say he’s the best among the CEOs from the biggest firms in the country.
I have used most versions of Windows starting with Windows 3.1 up to Windows 7 at work and at home. With the exception of 3.1 and Vista they have been very solid. Even Windows ME, which has a terrible reputation, worked perfectly for me. No crashes or any other problems. I was using really cheap hardware with Windows ME and it was very stable. I haven't used anything past Windows 7.
Culture
Yea, I think this is what to pin it on. Seeing so many issues with Amazon’s products most likely due to stack ranking and empire building. Nadella is well known to have gotten rid of stack ranking, so I’m guessing that’s the biggest contributor.