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Microsoft's Longtime Windows Boss Terry Myerson To Leave the Company Amid a Huge Executive Reorganization (businessinsider.com)
Terry Myerson, Microsoft's executive vice president of Windows and a long-time leader at Microsoft, is leaving the company, the company said today. The news comes as part of a big reshuffling of the company's executive leadership. From a report: "His strong contributions to Microsoft over 21 years from leading Exchange to leading Windows 10 leave a real legacy. I want to thank Terry for his leadership on my team and across Microsoft," wrote Nadella in an e-mail to employees announcing the changes. As part of the reorganization, Rajesh Jha, the executive VP of Microsoft Office products, will be expanding his responsibilities to encompass Myerson's role when he leaves in "the coming months." Jha will become the leader of a group called "Experiences & Devices," bringing Windows and Office under a single banner. "The purpose of this team is to instill a unifying product ethos across our end-user experiences and devices," writes Nadella. "Computing experiences are evolving to include multiple senses and are no longer bound to one device at a time but increasingly spanning many as we move from home to work and on the go."
Thank you for your dedication and hard work.
"The purpose of this team is to instill a unifying product ethos across our end-user experiences and devices,", translation: We'll fuck up the Windows 10 UI even more.
Right out of a cannon, in to a concrete wall.
Seeing the usual canned non-responses always makes me wonder what the real story is. Is Terry responsible for the idiotic strategy that made Windows 10 the most hated version of windows ever?
It must be Thursday.
#DeleteChrome
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Myerson was a solid dev leader. He was "acquired" when Microsoft bought his analytics startup. Now he is being replaced by an established app/cloud guy. I do not see this as a positive indication, but it is consistent with Nadella's overall direction for the company.
I have no idea what it was like to work with him personally, so maybe it's something like that. But if decision reflects the corporate direction, then the telemetry/data issues with Windows 10 will probably grow.
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According to the latest ruleset, this post should be modded as Vorpal Flamebait +5.
It would be nice to have someone lead the development of Windows 10 / Microsoft to NOT be a dis-trustful, anxiety provoking company serving platform. We PAY for the O/S and get screwed.
The amount of troubles, horrible GUI design, being able to do LESS than I could before, forced spying - Fuck you we're taking your usage and other data whether you like it or not, The HORRIBLE Office Need a freaking Microsoft account bullshit and that's not even all of it.
Microsoft is now a distrust-ful, scary, data-perv data-thieving company that doesn't care about the design of its products nor the users that use them.
Microsoft says fuck you this is how WE want YOUR computer to operate to each user as they install unwanted software on it. they called this "user experiences".
If they cared about their users, there would be a separate version that gives users full control and has NO telemetry even in the software. Office could be activated with a key and not force you to give up your identity tying you to a Microsoft account that they can turn off any time (Which happened after we bought office 2016 so they held our paid-for product hostage.)
A real legacy of spying on you for the NSA
The only way Microsoft could reorganize properly is if they split vertically. The only way they could improve is by a total rewrite using decent coding standards and published APIs. None of which is likely under any administration.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Over yet another move away from "Windows Uber Alles"...
Facebook is a Chink company from the spy who married the CEO to most of the money in the IPO. Microsoft for all of its follies is still part of the Allies.
The Cheeto would have to be a Russian agent for that to happen..
You are so wonderful. A sage, a legend, a god amongst mere mortals. And now that I'm done suck your balls, you're fired -- get the fuck out! WHAT!??!?!?! Yeah I bet you fired him because he's so fucking great. Do these fuckers actually believe in anyone in the industry buys this bullshit?
+1, read it as Johnny Carson
Good, Windows 10 sucks anyway
Yeah. Handing American knowledge to Indians. Thats patriotic.
At least FB is a CIA front. They get the piss because some Marxists hallucinate FB aided Trump. A pseudo enragement.
"As part of the reorganization, Rajesh Jha, the executive VP of Microsoft Office products, will be expanding his responsibilities to encompass Myerson's role..."
Apparently Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants people who are as lacking in social, managerial, and technical ability as he is. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is NOT competent. The entire board of directors and top management of Microsoft should be replaced, in my opinion.
One area of extreme incompetence: Somehow, shockingly, managers at Microsoft decided that it is okay to spy on Windows OS computer users in the same way that Google spies on cell phone users using the Android operating system. (One of the many stories about Google spying: Google collects Android users' locations even when location services are disabled.)
Microsoft and Windows cannot be trusted. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.
Desktop computers users often have a HUGE need for COMPLETE privacy. Microsoft has damaged its already very poor reputation.
One of the MANY articles about Microsoft's EXTREME ABUSE: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you... (You may be able to stop the ads until Microsoft finds other ways to control your computers.) The effect: Microsoft wants companies to pay for Microsoft distracting employees with ads.
Wholeheartedly agree. I'd even see with good eyes the existence of a free Windows version paid for by spying users (a la Google/Facebook) and a nice one paid for with money like it used to be in the old days. If it had none of the bad things they added in 10 and the 7 UI I'd pay for it in a heartbeat
Stop being a bitch. Be a man and run Linux or OpenBSD instead.
That's the only message Nutella understands.
windows is just a service to spy on end users thats it ...and its not worth it anymore , everyone i speak to goes back to windows 7 eventually
Great, now we'll get *yet another* GUI API that is *really* universal, this time we mean it!
Our main investor is the former product manager for DOS and Windows and was PC Mag's man of the year (IIRC) in 1995, and he said Satya was picked because they wanted an Indian. I guess he was the best choice out of the available people.
Gotta say, we should start physically kicking the shit out of these chimp fucks. They are a bunch of terrorists anyways trying to screw up our country so we can be a bunch of inbred street shitters too. Why not just knock their teeth out with a baseball bat and be done with it?
So, Windows 10 is the least odious from a usability standpoint (leaving privacy aside for a moment) of the last four releases [1], and they ax the Windows boss? It's almost like Microsoft wants their users to suffer.
[1] I'm counting 8.1 as a major release, as it was marketed as such, even though it changed the UI in only the most trivial fashion.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Windows Market share in 2013 = 91%
Windows Market Share in 2018 = 82%
Windows Phone Market share in 2009 = 10%
Windows Phone Market share in 2018 = what's this Windows Phone you talk of?
He did a great job shrinking market share while the overall market shrinks and killing a product (phone) he ran for 10 years
I worked there, in Windows, he's a douchebag of the highest order with zero technical vision.
Weird that no one has brought up the story that he apparently got his assistant pregnant...
Actually, Satya is very competent. So are a bunch of the other leaders there - you really don't know what you are talking about.
The things you complain about occurred within TerryMys group on his watch (windows10 is spyware, ads, inability push updates, the terrible store) were intentionally done and reviewed by him and would have been done without office or server/azure.people being informed. I was there, in the Studio B Theater and i know a load of the dev leaders didn't like the ideas being put up especially by the people who wanted ads everywhere.
The CEO is supposed to coordinate everything done by all groups in the company. That isn't happening.
Microsoft has suffered a HUGE LOSS OF RESPECT because of making Windows 10 into spyware.
One of the many, many articles: 17 Windows 10 problems - and how to fix them (Dec. 1, 2017). There have been MANY terrible problems since then. One example: Windows 10 bug: Microsoft fixes issue that broke USB, built-in cameras, keyboards (Mar. 6, 2018)
Do you see any competence in that?
Interesting how Nadella kept Rajesh but canned the white guy
Every high-tech company (and I have seen a lot, in my 4 decades in the industry) which hired one Indian eventually ended up being taken over by Indians.
They are like a plague.
Google and Microsoft will eventually speak Hindi. Just wait.
When I got my current laptop, I opened up Minesweeper, and immediately saw that I could purchase a version without ads. That was a shock. I think my Minesweeper days may be over.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Imagine someone's using a knife not for cutting sausage, but to go to a hot and steamy shower room occupied by an run-off blonde woman in a motel somewhere far out in the boonies. The knife may say it's innocent, but someone made it too sharp, on both edges, and then there were the cold violin staccatos accompanying the shrieks of terror and splatters of blood washed off the shower wall and into the drain.
Once the investigation is concluded, that knife will be taken in as evidence, and probably never used again for cutting sausages, which it was meant to do in the first place. The motel will probably be closed, or sold off to a more responsible proprietor. And the castle on the hill -- a real beacon, I say -- went to some enterprising cartoon CEO for his new theme park. I hear there were lots of mice. (To rid the building of rodents, a fat cat and a vermin exterminator with a large can of pesticide were sent into the castle, but no-one heard back of them. Of course, the groundwater got heavily contaminated, but that's a whole 'nother story.)
(Yes, I was referencing Psycho and MouseHunt.)
In the real world, Russia (Putin) is the Psycho (its mum the Soviet Union), Facebook is the knife, and Cambridge Analytica, illegal as it is, is the other sharp side of the blade.
This time, the good guys really are the FBI and other three-letter agencies of the U.S. and the allies at Five Eyes, in NATO, and the EU. Nevermind Clapper's 'least untruthful things' said to Senator Feinstein. This is the macro level of law enforcement.
The micro level is the Sacramento police that murdered Stephon Clark.
Companies ruined or almost ruined by Indians
Adaptec - Indian CEO Subramanian Sundaresh fired.
AIG (signed outsourcing deal in 2007 in Europe with Accenture Indian frauds, collapsed in 2009)
AirBus (Qantas plane plunged 650 feet injuring passengers when its computer system written by India disengaged the auto-pilot).
Apple - R&D CLOSED in India in 2006.
Apple - Foreign guest worker "Helen" Hung Ma caused the disastrous MobileMe product rollout.
Australia's National Australia Bank (Outsourced jobs to India in 2007, nationwide ATM and account failure in late 2010).
Bell Labs (Arun Netravalli took over, closed, turned into a shopping mall)
Boeing Dreamliner ES software (written by HCL, banned by FAA)
Bristol-Myers-Squibb (Trade Secrets and documents stolen in U.S. by Indian national guest worker)
Caymas - Startup run by Indian CEO, French director of dev, Chinese tech lead. Closed after 5 years of sucking VC out of America.
ComAir crew system run by 100% Indian IT workers caused the 12/25/05 U.S. airport shutdown when they used a short int instead of a long int
Dell - call center (closed in India because Premji's conmen don't even know how to use telephones, let alone computers)
Delta call centers (closed in India because Premji's conmen don't even know how to use telephones, let alone computers)
Fannie Mae- Hired large numbers of Indians, had to be bailed out. Indian logic bomb creator found guilty.
GM - Was booming in 2006, signed $300 million outsourcing deal with Wipro that same year, went bankrupt 3 years later
HSBC ATMs (software taken over by Indians, failed in 2006)
Intel Whitefield processor project (cancelled, Indian staff canned)
Lehman (Spectramind software bought by Wipro, ruined, trashed by Indian programmers)
Microsoft - Employs over 35,000 H-1Bs. Stock used to be $100. Today it's lucky to be over $25. Not to mention that Vista thing.
Microsoft - Lian Yang, Microsoft-Contracted Engineer, Arrested in Smuggling Plot After Another FBI Sting in Portland in 2010
MIT Media Lab Asia (canceled)
PeopleSoft (Taken over by Indians in 2000, collapsed).
Qantas - See AirBus above
Quark (Alukah Kamar CEO, fired, lost 60% of its customers to Adobe because Indian-written QuarkExpress 6 was a failure)
Rolls Royce (Sent aircraft engine work to India in 2006, engines delayed for Boeing 787, and failed on at least 2 Quantas planes in 2010, cost Rolls $500m).
Skype ( Yarlagadda fired)
State of Indiana $867 billion FAILED IBM project, IBM being sued
State of Texas failed IBM project.
Sun Micro (Taken over by Indian and Chinese workers in 2001, collapsed, has to be sold off to Oracle).
United - call center (closed in India because Premji's conmen don't even know how to use telephones, let alone computers)
Virgin Atlantic (software written in India caused cloud IT failure)
Visium Asset Management - Sanjay Valvani Insider trading
World Bank (Indian fraudsters BANNED for 3 years because they stole data).
Casteism