Should Microsoft sell Windows and Office? This former exec believes so:
A former Microsoft executive has offered up some advice for current CEO Satya Nadella: spin off Windows and Office and focus on Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing crown jewel.
Ben Slivka, a 14-year veteran at Microsoft who left in 1999, gave the unsolicited advice to Nadella in an interview with CNBC, saying: "The right thing probably is to bet the future on the cloud."
[...] On top of this, Nadella invested heavily in building out Azure and other enterprise-focused offerings to compete with Amazon's AWS and Google Cloud. By some estimates, Azure hold 20% of the cloud market, below AWS' 32% and above Google's 9%.
According to analysts that CNBC spoke to, spinning off Windows and Office would make very little sense. Nadella has built significant and much-needed synergies between Microsoft's various businesses, in such a way that the rise of one boosts the others.
So what do you think?
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday January 15 2022, @01:45AM
It happens in businesses even when major failures and dangerous incompetence do actually jeopardize the company's existence. Middle managers in too many places manage to maximum their "performance" bonuses, not company profits. Those deciding what is worth giving someone a bonus for are making decisions based on their own set of numbers that they are trying to achieve. The reports that make it to the upper levels are often fantastical reports that are based on reports that are based, somewhere way down the pile of turtles, on reports of actual data. What shows up at the top is what those at the top want to see. There's a reason so many businesses go under or are sold off.