-Windows Phone 8 disaster -Windows Phone 10 disaster and painfully drawn out death of the ecosystem -Referring to Android and iOS devices as “evilphones” and forcing his family to use Windows Phone into 2018 -Forced Windows upgrades and updates -Tricking customers into upgrading to Windows 10 when they didn’t want to -Killing Win32 and forcing UWP apps on Windows in an attempt to save the already-dead Windows Phone -Popup ads in File Explorer -Invasive Windows telemetry and spying -Dysfunctional Windows Store -Selling user data to target ads and for paid Bing searches -Stupid tablet pens that nobody wanted “pervasive pen” -Candy Crush Saga preinstalled on Windows 10 Professional edition -Xbox One launch failure -Backwards organizational culture, one of the worst in the industry -The gastric bypass surgery HE’S GONE! The witch is dead. How are you going to celebrate?
He must have been a hell of a politician to survive that long with so many failures. Was he any good as a leader/technically?
No. He was really good at politics and also famous for failing upward.
I hate how Microsoft produces career politicians who like termite eat their organization from within. I have such a termite as a boss who manages well upwards - I hope his failures catch up with him soon too!
What is ads in file explorer? Why do you think XBox One lunch was failure? I would agree the rest, especially Candy Crush Saga preinstalled on Windows 10 Professional Edition.
May be it’s the new solitaire
Ads in file explorer == OneDrive related message to make you a subscriber. Agree it's not the best experience but it's not ads ads
he is wiping his tears with millions of $$
Xbox one was a failure? Not super in touch w that but seemed fine? Agree w the rest lol
It was a failure, but not Terry’s: https://hothardware.com/news/xbox-one-fallout-don-mattrick-leaving-microsoft-for-zynga
Yes it was. Xbox is (or was until this year) in WDG which means the final decision went up to Terry and he signed off on it.
What about Windows Mixed Reality no one uses?
That’s more of Alex Kipman’s failure. He has two failures in a row now: Kinect and HoloLens. He is great at creating expensive science experiments that customers don’t want to pay for. Looks like he’s on the same track as Terry. Failing up. Alex also reported up to Terry.
Hololens is dead
I never understood why Candy Crush is preinstalled on Windows 10 Pro. It's not just that either - there's a whole bunch of UWP apps that get installed automatically and shortcuts to install more.
People who worked on that team didn't know the difference between their ass and the start button
Holyshit. That’s a list of Microsoft’s most epic failures. It’s all from one executive? If people like that can thrive then Microsoft is broken organizationally and this guy is just smart at exploiting it.
Microsoft doesn’t fire execs. Execs suddenly became sick and eventually disappear, and suddenly reappear in another company. I.e. Qi Lu bike accident, Julie Larsen Green. 😂
Not even close - Ballmer is in the HoF for worst Microsoft decisions. Acquantitative they bought for $5.9B and wrote it off for $5.8B. Windows 8 was Ballmer.
I am assuming OP worked at Microsoft at one point. If Terry is actually responsible for the things that OP described, then this is horrible. Some of these are the reasons why I moved away from windows. But this guy is going to claim he did great things on his LinkedIn and will probably get hired at another company to ruin that. LinkedIn should consider adding a way to comment on other people's profiles.
Does Assaf Ronen ring a bell to you? Microsoft breeds these kind of execs https://www.recode.net/2018/3/21/17148854/uber-rescinded-job-offer-amazon
Oh yeah that would be would be insane...that would end any platform in about 2 days. Loser trolls would assemble like locusts to attack everyone else and each other. Bot armies would randomly disembowel pretty much everything in a week...
Xbox one launch was good.
No. I was there.
It wasn't. For engineers working on it nor consumers. And Xbox lost to ps4. I'm not sure how much it was him vs mattrick. Probably mattrick.
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