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Satya Nadella: 'We Clearly Missed the Mobile Phone' (mashable.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tough-choices dept.

At the Wall Street Journal's WSJD Live conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admitted that Microsoft has largely failed in making a dent in the mobile hardware business. Nadella, who took over the command of Microsoft from Steve Ballmer in February 2014, however added that the company is now focused on doing well in new categories and also building new categories. He said:We clearly missed the mobile phone, there's no question. Our goal now is to make sure we grow new categories. We have devices which are phones today but the place where we are focused on, given where the market is, is what is the unique thing that our phone can do. We have a phone that in fact can replace your PC, the same way we have a tablet that can replace your laptop. Those are the categories that we want to go create. If anything, the lesson learned for us, was thinking of PC as the hub for all things for all time to come. It was perhaps one for the bigger mistakes we made.

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  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sent from my Windows phone.

    1. Re: First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Liar! No one has a Windows Phone!

    2. Re:First Post by paiute · · Score: 4, Funny

      Microsoft didn't even see it coming.

      Microsoft is a lot like Wile E. Coyote. We can see that the anvil is going to land squarely on them, but they never seem to be able to look far enough into the future to see it themselves.

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  2. Re:We missed the mobile phnoe so... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah.

    This one time I was downloading and running random executables from some shady sites. Suddenly my computer started acting strange, slowing down, rebooting at random, using up all of my bandwidth, grinding the hard drive, changing my browser settings (from Pale Moon to some Internet Explorer knock-off), displaying pop-ups and ads, etc.

    Stupid me! I ended up with a Windows 10 infestation and despite running some anti-Windows 10s like SUPERAntiWindows10 and Win10Bot: Search & Destroy, I ended up having to reformat the drive to get rid of it.

    Let this be a lesson. Never run executables from unknown and untrusted sources. You may get a Windows 10 infection.