Nadella will never be the answer to Microsoft Prayers.

Nadella will never be the answer to 

Microsoft Prayers.

We all wanted Microsoft to perform exceptionally well. Why?. Part of what we are today is defined by them. During the early 90’s only “the Engineers”, Doctors, businessman’s sons and daughters get to use these computers, it was Microsoft who made it accessible for us. Now our entire community is using computers, without it now our world is unthinkable. True that Microsoft robbed the GUI (look and feel) of Apple Mac, and they have done a few questionable things with other corps as well, but who gives a shit, it wasn't Apple who made us what we are today, Its MICROSOFT. 

Now a days innovation is the prime agenda in pretty much any company’s portfolio. Sadly for Microsoft, innovation in recent years (the Ballmer era 2001-14) was a disaster. Good that Microsoft got rid of Ballmer. For most of the people out there who still believe that Apple's tab, iPod, iPhone were the pioneers in terms of innovation during the early 2000's, your wrong. Microsoft has these products in their portfolio in 2000. They had a 8 pound Windows XP tab (I am not kidding!), their music player had a technology superior to Apple that you listen and download music online with monthly subscriptions (Napster and all), even if you lose the player it gets incorporated in your music account (Apple had this update recently), these products were cheap too unlike Apple, Microsoft had good smart phones as well (Motorola Q). Microsoft had a vision, but they were piss poor in terms of executing these innovations. The only company that runs their Windows OS in mobile is the only company that they bought (Nokia). How pathetic is that!, also they had a software installed in their mp3 players, only god knows where is it now. Even today, their not up with the leaders, its Apple. Now their playing catch up with the likes of Apple, Google, Sony in terms of next gen devices.

Now you have “the cloud” in place, Windows Azure. 

Windows Azure is a great product as well, in terms of revenue it has fetched around $19 Billion, companies will move to cloud eventually, Azure is the next big thing in cloud, blah blah blah! 

As a cloud computing professional myself Azure is good product, but then they are no where near the likes of AWS (Amazon web Services) and Rackspace, when you ask executives which cloud do you use for your app(s) its always AWS or Rackspace. Even in the cloud there is catching up to do.

The only good product Microsoft is selling is their Xbox 360 and Xbox One (its a video game console, most enterprise or personal customers don't care about it).

Put all these into perspective, and why don't you judge Steve Ballmer. You tell Ballmer Windows Vista, 8, 8.1, mobile OS or Surface needs some serious fixes, all he says is “No , their alright and your wrong”. This degrading company do not do anything which the average people wants (which defined their success back in the heydays 1990-00).

And now they made Satya Nadella as their CEO to look forward. I was happy that they finally replaced Ballmer, but when i read Satya Nadella’s resume “ a 22 year Microsoft veteran..”, that was it. Again you hire a Microsoft fan boy?? Common!.. You need a person who has got this kick-ass marketing attitude (like our beloved Jobs), not a programmer. You need a person who asks for the unthinkable in terms of what the market needs, it is up to the programmers to code it. That is what vision is, and you drive innovations from there. Nadella will look upon to innovate from his employees head which is rusty like my Hyundai for more than 10 years. I checked few of his interviews, it was more like watching WWE (or the good old WWF), like this pre written scripts “yes i’m a learner, i always listen to employees to drive innovation, its challenging and all”. No that cannot be the answer to our questions. Okay, then there is Tim Cook (Apple CEO), similar to Nadella but that’s for a different day. 

Is geek as a CEO that Microsoft really needs now? 

I just don't think so.