[gamesbrainiac]

This is the same guy that forced XBOX to increase profit margins to 30% and therefore destroyed any hope that Xbox would be a legitimate choice for gamers going forward.

This is the same guy that shoved AI down the throats of millions of Windows users that forced me to just turn off Windows updates and add bazzite in dual boot.

I remember a long time ago I was talking to an executive that worked at a startup that was eventually acquired by Cisco. After the acquisition, the executive team got coaches to train them to be "inspirational" leaders. One thing that was common was adding a quote from say Marcus Arelius in the signature of their emails to make them sound wiser.

We need to stop this hero worship. Microsoft built a moat, and capitalized on it. They used their connections to block others from coming into the fray.

I don't care what their theory of success is, their definition is cancerous; a malignant one.

[karim79]

Interesting. So Steve Ballmer saved Xbox from the RROD, and then went on to appoint a dude who would go on to make Ballmer even richer. And the new guy then goes on to destroy Xbox once again.

I wonder what this will look like in 20 years from now.

[baal80spam]

I'm no MS lover, but this is the same guy that increased the MS share price tenfold.

[carefree-bob]

He temporarily increased MS share price tenfold, at the cost of jeapordizing the long term viability of the company.

In 10 years we may well look back at Nadela as the "the man who killed Microsoft" or at least "the man who destroyed Microsoft's position as a top 10 tech firm", and shareholders wont be too happy.

[mrbungie]

Well, this is a good example of "Shareholder value != customer value".

[markstos]

Same guy who touted Microsoft's progress on climate goals, then went all-in on AI.

[MrDresden]

Pretty much all of the major tech stocks have risen by 10x since 2014.

[alsetmusic]

> I'm no MS lover, but this is the same guy that increased the MS share price tenfold.

How does that improve things for customers? This ridiculous affinity for increasing the stock price at the expense of all else is why so many tech products are degrading. Google, MS, Apple, etc.

[gamesbrainiac]

Pretty much all tech stock has 10xed over the past decade. However, the fact that this is being used to justify anything is a problem. The financialized economy has become so powerful that it can treat the real economy with impunity.

If there are no consequences to prioritizing shareholder value at the expense of product utility or ecosystem value, then we are going to get less value from the products that we purchase over time.

This is why the economy doesn't work anymore. We've been swimming in toxic waters for so long that we think it is completely normal to prioritize shareholder value at the expense of everything else; greed is good.

[ekjhgkejhgk]

Finish your thought. MS share price tenfold - what do you conclude from what? What did you want to say?

[dgxyz]

Is it a software and infrastructure company or an investment scam?

[shimman]

The only thing the elites and rich care about are what people think of them, they do not care about the health of people or how society is dealing with inequality; no they just want you to think that they are smart and worthy of respect.

Hence why they spend so much time on vanity.

Please don't give it to them. They are not special. They are not unique. The vast majority of people on this Earth can do an equivalent job if you gave them the same amount of resources (in this case a monopoly worth trillions).