New Microsoft? Nadella the right guy?

[aximtreo]

I am curious about one of the statements he made which suggested that MS does not really care to be a hardware company, but is focused on productivity. Why come out with Surface and buy Nokia then? Either you do care about getting into hardware or you do not. If so, those moves make sense. If not, not so much.

I think his hardware statement if more meant that he doesn't want the major part of MS to be hardware. As long as it's a viable source for the overall good of the MS long term goals; hardware is OK to have.

 

[tgp]

For as long as we have advertising, Google will remain a very tough competitor and is likely here to stay.

That's a very good point. Advertising has been around since the beginning of commerce, and will be around as long as humanity remains. Sounds like job security to me!

 

[fdalbor]

Motorolla invented the cell phone, Nokia refined it.