“Much has been written about Microsoft’s revitalization under new CEO Satya Nadella,” Patrick Seitz reports for Barron’s. “But Jefferies analyst John DiFucci isn’t buying into the talk that Microsoft has been transformed from a PC-centric software firm to one focused on mobile and cloud computing.”
“DiFucci launched coverage of Microsoft with an underperform rating and a price target of 40. He said that Nadella has done little to address core problems at the company,” Seitz reports. “‘We believe the ‘new’ Microsoft will look very much like the ‘old’ Microsoft for some time,’ DiFucci said in his report. He noted that the majority of Microsoft’s operating profit is still tied to PCs and sees Google Chromebooks and tablets eating into Windows’ computing share.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Somebody gets it.
Meet the new boss…same as the old boss…
Microsoft – Irrelevant Since 1998
Something wrong? You didn’t make this political. Here: “This is all Obama’s fault! Impeach him! Ohbummer! Oblabla! Haha so there!”
well no, there’s not much difference between Microsoft and Obama.
Yes, there is. Microsoft is sort of competent. Not too competent, but more than that other one mentioned.
They’re not competent at all. Not even close.
anti-botvinnik, why did you poke the bear?
Oh, never mind, I just read your name.
I didn’t get fooled in the first place.
What hype?
Well the BBC tech site was trying to sell us this line a few weeks back in an article with not one example of a turn around in its products but instead referred to ‘perception’ and a sense of belief amongst its start all in other words totally subjective twaddle. But then the BBC has been a Microsoft lackey for some time to the point it was old to cut it out by its own Governors a few years back. Thankfully they at least had the sense to sack the Microsoft executive headhunted to transform their IT but who instead lost millions achieving both whatsoever… no change there then with MS managers current or former. So to hear this headline a little later suggests to me that as there is indeed little to no sign of actual transformation that there must have been some sort of marketing impetus from Redmond or its henchmen to create a sense of faith through smoke and mirrors. It would hardly be the first time when thinking back to the zune, various vapour ware, Surface, fat ass tables, overblown Kinect claims and Win phones of various flavours.
Apparently it was ‘Confusion’ that led to thee BBC digital project failure costing 100 million UK pounds http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25925357
Nothing to do with Microsoft infiltration and corruption at all. And still, the IT doofuses that caused this have yet to serve any prison time for defrauding millions of British tv license payers.
That supposed ‘lost’ £100 Million is now sitting in Microsofts pocket.
Oh yeah, have you noticed? They changed the blue screen of death to the red screen of death. Big Improvement.
The all blue screen was an early example of Microsoft’s “flat” design.
They are still coming out with stupid apps trying to tell people to start working with their tablets when the primary use is for entertainment.
M$ should use a new slogan:
“We just don’t get it”
I was watching a replay of the Chargers – Rams game last night. About two thirds through the first half it dawned on me that I hadn’t seen any bright blue Surface tablets in any sideline shots. They were so visible earlier in the season, and now (at least in San Diego) the coaches are back to flipping through paper printouts.
When you are King of the Mountain, you have to protect your mountain all the time with all your best archers and your stock of wood & boiling pots of oil to ward off the invaders.
Unfortunately, that leaves no one to conceive, design-create & make the firearm that doomed the king.
Microsoft “hype” ain’t anything new. Microsoft following through on hype by delivering a product that doesn’t suck would be new.
A Microsoft vacuüm cleaner won’t suck…
Neither will my …
oh, never mind
A Microsoft vacuum cleaner would totally suck, figuratively if not always literally.
No a Microsoft vacuum would blow.
Ah come on, Microsoft is totally revitalized. All Steve Balmer was doing was reorganizing the deck chairs on the Titanic. Under Nutella’s amazing guidance he’s tossed 5,000 chairs overboard. To top it off those chairs weren’t empty. That’s leadership.
/shjtt
Deck chairs were the only thing on the Titanic that did float.
Chromebooks? Puhleeze. The next netbook.
Revitalized? Maybe. But much, much less powerful and less profitable.
My thoughts exactly. They did lay some people off.
Finally an analyst with a brain. I too have been scratching my head as to why MSFT has been up so much since Nadella was made king. I don’t see any way he can change the culture enough there to make a difference. Windows 8 could not be a worse os. I HATE Windows!
Nadella. Nutella. I love it!
Ballmer transformed Microsoft’s cash cow into burgers for Vista’s launch party
Until Nadella eliminates HUGE portions of the useless middle and upper management of Microsoft there is little change of anything really changing. He needs to act like a conqueror eliminating anyone who is not contributing to his program.
It takes a lot of effort to turn around a ship… especially one that is sinking.
Actually Elop at Nokia proved it is very easy to turn a sinking ship … to point down.
Their stock performance in the last 2 years seems to disagree…
Two things I’m looking forward to in 2016: iPhone 7 and botty having to say “Madam President “. 😝
I hadn’t heard that Condoleeza Rice was running.
In order to be revitalized and transformed into a mobile company, Microsoft would have to sell some mobile products. Even Samsung, with the bottom falling out of its mobile business, was heard laughing hysterically at that thought.
Hey. Microsoft lives in my home state. They create jobs and pay taxes. Stop picking on them just because they could suck a bowling ball flat.
Answer to title: I don’t.
thank you