Todd Bishop reports for GeekWire, “Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent a companywide email to employees this morning — laying out a broad agenda for Microsoft’s new fiscal year, setting the stage for the upcoming Windows 10 launch and revealing the company’s new, official mission statement: To ’empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.'”
“Nadella’s latest email is not being distributed publicly by the company. It was obtained independently by GeekWire,” Bishop reports. “The email amounts to a “State of the Union” message for employees, setting a tone and direction for the upcoming year. It reinforces many of the changes that are already underway, including the company’s focus on mobile devices and cloud services.”
Bishop reports, “The email follows the announcement by Nadella last week that four top executives will be leaving as part of a broader management overhaul that combines the company’s Windows and Devices groups. Last week’s news was the biggest shakeup at the company since Nadella announced 18,000 job cuts last year.”
We will need to innovate in new areas, execute against our plans, make some tough choices in areas where things are not working and solve hard problems in ways that drive customer value. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Translation: More layoffs and product cancellations (Surface? Windows Phone?) on the way!
SEE ALSO:
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Surface 3: Microsoft’s spork – April 6, 2015
Gates reduces Microsoft stake to just 3% – February 4, 2015
Beleaguered Microsoft axes another 2,100 employees – September 18, 2014
Beleaguered Microsoft’s 18,000 layoffs the beginning of a painful attempt to clean up Ballmer’s mess, says Street – July 17, 2014
“We will need to innovate in new areas, execute against our plans, make some tough choices in areas where things are not working and solve hard problems in ways that drive customer value.”
I.e. “We’re not historically competent enough to do any of those things so you are totally HOSED (employment-wise)! We hear Apple is hiring though…”
> We will need to… execute against our plans
Yes, it often seems like Microsoft is working “against” common sense. 😉
(Why not just say “execute our plans”?)
*picks up plan document*
“Aw, man, somebody executed all over it.”
againstourplan.exe
Control-Alt-DEL
THERE… I solved the issue.
> new, official mission statement: To ’empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.’
I actually like that part… Because by design and arrogance, Windows 8 had the opposite effect for the majority of Microsoft’s Windows customers (persons and organizations), who want nothing to do with touching the screen.
That’s something they keep saying over and over through the years (hoping maybe it will happen if they say it often enough) and everybody is going “No thanks, we’ve seen your “vision,” noted how trustworthy and innovative you are and prefer to abstain.”
The only tough choices this douche faces is whether to have California Condor eggs or Unarmored Threespine Stickleback roe for breakfast tomorrow.
Hilarious!
What a complete load of corporate non-speak.
I’ll be glad when Microsoft are just a small fish in an Apple pond.
What a complete load of corporate non-speak.
Surely, he is the one true successor to that idiot, Ballmer.
-jcr
“Corporate non-speak?” True. But that’s pretty much what every CEO everywhere is saying.
Er, MicroShaft has 32, count ’em, 32 models fo Lumia Windows Phones to address <2% marketshare.
Meanwhile, Apple has 4.
What MicroShaft has done is Product Management madness!
“To empower everyone on the planet…”? Lol. That’s ridiculously mired in the year 1998. Empowerment is passé and even offensive. I have power, thanks. I don’t need you to empower me. I need powerful creative tools that work. I’ll take it from there.
Funny, I feel the same way about iOS censorship. You know, for my own good…
…. Don’t suffer, go get an Android device and let the world of spammers and hackers see your every move!!!
No one ordered you to use Apple products. Selection is not censorship.
Eliminating choices is censorship. That is what Apple has done.
ANY company makes choices about what they will or won’t sell. No company is obligated to – or even can – offer all possible choices. Any company makes those choices based on numerous possible criteria.
Empowering everyone on the planet embiggens the man! 😉
Does that mean he wants to empower his competitors? 🖖😀⌚️
We’ll strive for synergistic empowerment of all shareholders, meeting the new paradigm, right-sized and all working smarter, not harder. And don’t worry. Your jobs are safe.
Microsoft is death their time past
Welcome to the new of era post PC
Yea, Surface is doomed.
They are going to re double their efforts focusing on IT.
. . . and buy a basketball team.
God please save us from these planet saviors. PLEASE. Wonder how much the Ego Trips cost departing from Redmond. One thing we know for sure. They lack First Class. I could hear the words buzzing all the way in Southern Calfornia.
couldn’t find Apple’s mission statement in a search. They don’t seem to have one.
Cook’s philosophy ((which is similar to Jobs ideas) in his memo might stand for a mission statement . It is a heck a lot easier to grasp that Msft’s (which I can barely read through) :
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“There is an extraordinary breadth and depth and tenure among the Apple executive team, and these executives lead over 35,000 employees that I would call “all wicked smart.” And that’s in all areas of the company, from engineering to marketing to operations and sales and all the rest. And the values of our company are extremely well entrenched.
We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products, and that’s not changing. We’re constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.
We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot.
And frankly, we don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change. And I think, regardless of who is in what job, those values are so embedded in this company that Apple will do extremely well.”
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the two memo’s actually illuminates the two companies well, Msft seems befuddled and confused, Apple’s is clear, powerful and inspiring.
“We don’t want to be like Windows. We want to do everything better. We are intent on creating the greatest computers and the best computing experience in the world. And we are the only ones who can say that with a straight face.” — Greg Joswiak, Apple VP of hardware product marketing
Funny when I read comments and posts on here. I worked for Apple for more than a decade and own every Apple product (Apple TV, Airport, Macs, iPhone and Apple Watch. Yet the sheer ignorance at times in here amuses me. Surface is a making money. They have a long way to go to make up for lost time but I have personal knowledge on how many billions (yes with a B) Microsoft is making on Surface now. I’ll agree Windows phone has a lot of work to do so this could potentially go away but again it has enough market share that it will stay as long as Microsoft continues to add billions into their profits each quarter. Yes again with a B. It will be long time before Microsoft disappeared as so many on here hope for and lets just be honest. It won’t really ever happen. They will always be relevant.
“but I have personal knowledge on how many billions (yes with a B) Microsoft is making on Surface now … as Microsoft continues to add billions into their profits each quarter.”
personal knowledge?
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last earnings report Apr 2015
” Microsoft’s earnings remain in decline. The 61 cents earnings per share it posted Thursday put the company at the end of its fifth straight quarter of declining profits. In the year-ago quarter, Microsoft posted earnings per share of 68 cents on revenue of $20.4 billion.”
FIFTH STRAIGHT QUARTER OF DECLINING PROFITS.
another report on apr results “Microsoft reported EPS of $0.61 for the quarter, ten cents better than what analysts were expecting but 10% lower year-over-year”
TEN PERCENT LOWER PROFITS.
the verge on Apr results “Microsoft… net income has dropped 12 percent. ”
NET INCOME DROPPED.
WTF is your “as Microsoft continues to add billions into their profits”?????
as for surface:
“Meanwhile, Surface tablet sales …. reaching $713 million”
as far as I can tell 713 million is sort of lower than your “Billions with a B”. 713 million is less than ONE billion. if if in the last few months it grew tremendously I doubt it is Billions (B with an S). lucky if it was one billion.
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MEAWHILE:
APR QUARTER:
msft net income of 4.9 in apr vs Apple’s 13.6 Billion.
(and apple being more a consumer company, the apr quarter right after Christmas is the ‘slow’ quarter…. )
MS M.O.: every fiscal quarter budgets are analyzed & if performance is lacking…heads roll & budgets slashed. Great moral booster & motivator with no long game vision.
Surface 3 Pro is gaining but massive R&D costs & losses in versions 1+2 so they’re still invite RED. RARE to see them in Seattle beyond Jurassic Park One in Redmond.
The SS MS lifeboat drill is when they laid off the 18,000 employees. Now they jettison the the top lieutenants. Time to get in the lifeboats for real.
Please make the ultimate tough choice and shut it all down. End the reign of terror and trash. End Microsoft.