<story><title>Satya Nadella – Microsoft&apos;s CEO</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ceo/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t Microsoft have 90% of the desktop?  About the same dominance in &amp;quot;Office apps&amp;quot;, along with their proprietary formats keeping people uncomfortable using &amp;quot;compatible&amp;quot; software.  That dominance is almost 2 decades old and it&amp;#x27;s quite hard to fix.&lt;p&gt;When most people get a job, they&amp;#x27;re going to be using Microsoft because that&amp;#x27;s what they will be given.  I&amp;#x27;ve never been somewhere where I&amp;#x27;m told which search engine to use.  Most places still don&amp;#x27;t offer an alternative to IE in the work place.  That&amp;#x27;s why developers are still coding to IE7.&lt;p&gt;It really is frustrating that people don&amp;#x27;t understand this.  I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind a better Microsoft, except for the fact that people have short memories and don&amp;#x27;t really understand how powerful Microsoft currently is.  Google is the the same ballpark?  Seriously!?!</text></item><item><author>ZoFreX</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not Microsoft that was&amp;#x2F;is bad, it&amp;#x27;s having any single entity have too much power. In my opinion, right now, that is Google, and that&amp;#x27;s why we need a stronger someone - anyone. And Microsoft fit the bill.</text></item><item><author>taylodl</author><text>Why? What good would a strong Microsoft provide us? What void would that fill? We&amp;#x27;ve been there, done that and frankly, I don&amp;#x27;t care to go back. They abused their power when they had it and I have no intent of giving it back to them to give them another crack at it.&lt;p&gt;No, I much prefer today&amp;#x27;s world of Google, Apple, Samsung and FOSS in all its myriad forms battling it out. There&amp;#x27;s more developer frameworks than ever available to us. More languages. More everything.&lt;p&gt;No. I don&amp;#x27;t want to go back.</text></item><item><author>adamt</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d never thought I&amp;#x27;d say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again.&lt;p&gt;Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presence in the Internet and mobile worlds are now pretty limited and leaving the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry.&lt;p&gt;Satya has done a good job with Azure, and it will be interesting to see whether he can make Microsoft more relevant to the Internet back into someone that can influence the industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewfong</author><text>And Google has an absurd share of the search market, with which they can make or break (and have made or broken) all sorts of businesses. Consumers can choose not to use Google, but businesses can&amp;#x27;t opt out of how they&amp;#x27;re listed.&lt;p&gt;The Office formats, for all their quirks, are open and documented. There&amp;#x27;s no one forcing you to use MS Office. You probably can&amp;#x27;t switch which OS you&amp;#x27;re using at work, but Windows is fairly permissive of portable apps that evade most of the security restrictions. We&amp;#x27;re locked into using IE8 at work for compatibility reasons, but I&amp;#x27;m able to use Chrome on my work computer just fine.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t think Google is heading down the old Microsoft route, I point you to the bundling of Google+ with all of their other apps. Yes, it delivers value. But that&amp;#x27;s what Microsoft said when it started bundling IE with Windows.</text></comment>
<story><title>Satya Nadella – Microsoft&apos;s CEO</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ceo/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t Microsoft have 90% of the desktop?  About the same dominance in &amp;quot;Office apps&amp;quot;, along with their proprietary formats keeping people uncomfortable using &amp;quot;compatible&amp;quot; software.  That dominance is almost 2 decades old and it&amp;#x27;s quite hard to fix.&lt;p&gt;When most people get a job, they&amp;#x27;re going to be using Microsoft because that&amp;#x27;s what they will be given.  I&amp;#x27;ve never been somewhere where I&amp;#x27;m told which search engine to use.  Most places still don&amp;#x27;t offer an alternative to IE in the work place.  That&amp;#x27;s why developers are still coding to IE7.&lt;p&gt;It really is frustrating that people don&amp;#x27;t understand this.  I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind a better Microsoft, except for the fact that people have short memories and don&amp;#x27;t really understand how powerful Microsoft currently is.  Google is the the same ballpark?  Seriously!?!</text></item><item><author>ZoFreX</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not Microsoft that was&amp;#x2F;is bad, it&amp;#x27;s having any single entity have too much power. In my opinion, right now, that is Google, and that&amp;#x27;s why we need a stronger someone - anyone. And Microsoft fit the bill.</text></item><item><author>taylodl</author><text>Why? What good would a strong Microsoft provide us? What void would that fill? We&amp;#x27;ve been there, done that and frankly, I don&amp;#x27;t care to go back. They abused their power when they had it and I have no intent of giving it back to them to give them another crack at it.&lt;p&gt;No, I much prefer today&amp;#x27;s world of Google, Apple, Samsung and FOSS in all its myriad forms battling it out. There&amp;#x27;s more developer frameworks than ever available to us. More languages. More everything.&lt;p&gt;No. I don&amp;#x27;t want to go back.</text></item><item><author>adamt</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d never thought I&amp;#x27;d say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again.&lt;p&gt;Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presence in the Internet and mobile worlds are now pretty limited and leaving the two power-houses of Google and Apple to shape the industry.&lt;p&gt;Satya has done a good job with Azure, and it will be interesting to see whether he can make Microsoft more relevant to the Internet back into someone that can influence the industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zurn</author><text>That remaining 90% share is having a severe chilling effect on general-purpouse computing. That share needs to get eaten up by Linux and Mac OS if we want to keep open computing healthy.</text></comment>