Future MS CEO Will Consider Selling Xbox Division
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lucidus
We shouldn't call him future CEO just yet .. he's only a candidate among four others. My money is on Nadella :P
kosh_neranek
Who on earth would like to buy Bing? M$ lost billions on it every year and most likely would charge billions for selling it. There can't be anybody who with a bit of sense that would like to buy it.. They will have problems selling Xbox even not BING. Let's just wait and see
lucidus
Yahoo I guess. Xbox is a black hole .. dunno who in their right mind would waste their money on that.
Spider4423
Some1 needs to buy Bing and rename it to Bang... just for the lulz
xiiirolls
hopefully elop isnt the one. Personally i see no lights in him. its obvious ipod has potential turning into phone and he failed to realize that. Also nokia phone still equip with outdated spec etc. is it such desparate to make money? He is short sighted of technology and narrow tech minded. sigh...
Loobyluggs
I think "bong" is more appropriate, because you need to be high to use.
/rimshot
Neo Cyrus
Or you can use it if you don't like Google's censorship. When I first saw the video about it, I thought it was joke.
rl66
true 🙂
also i use it because it is less "porn" friendly...
when i seach for an escort of 1977, i search for a car from ford, not for a old girl... and i don't have to seach how to formulate to make google understand "not porn".
but anyway if i where new CEO i would sell Bing, Xbox and Nokia too, displace the mother house in asia, and the production in low cost country.
Anarion
I'd sell Xbox too and commit to PC gaming instead. PC gamers don't want Xbox and if they do not start investing in PC gaming soon, others are going to push Linux instead.
sykozis
Nokia phone specs aren't outdated. They're appropriate for the OS they're running....which runs just fine on Nokia's hardware.
rl66
agree with that, same hardware on android whould have been very fine.
and change the vision of the consumer too:
2 year ago Nokia was "the phone that your gran'pa would buy
now it's "the phone that your gran'pa would buy to be young with colourfull phone"
at the moment i write despite heavy comunication and add (each 2 hour on TV), it is impossible to buy a Nokia in shop, it is possible only on demand...
i guess it is a huge black hole... and the 3rd time fail of M$ in phone industry
xiiirolls
thats right. however more is always better. Y u need a 8 gb ram pc when 2 gb can do it? third party apps can run better on it rather just nice for the phone itself. some source saying they are releasing better spec in later windows phone. i would guess they finally notice that?
schmidtbag
In a business perspective, this Elop guy is a complete utter idiot who has no idea how MS got where they are now. As a disclaimer, I hate MS and haven't bought one of their products in about 12 years. But MS didn't become huge by sharing their experience with non-Windows users. They forced people to depend on them. It took a long time for MS to release a Mac version of Office with no major strings attached (in Apple's perspective).
I'm a huge fan of Qt and completely understand why Elop wants to do the things he said, but he will destroy MS with his personal business tactics. Except for Office, MS's products have always been sub-par. Windows 7 is pretty good but it's still a bloated mess.
As for selling Xbox, that's also a terrible idea. MS may have screwed up big time with XB1 but I'm sure it'll still be profitable. Considering how proprietary MS is, nobody could possibly buy out the Xbox brand and expect to get anywhere with it after spending years and millions of dollars in legally preparing it.
Sprig
How could they consider Elop? 😛uke2:
By performance he is the worst CEO in history. He utterly decimated Nokia.
Though on the bright side, Goodbye MS if he gets the top job.
chanw4
Flop with an E instead?
lucidus
Damn .. Flop with an underscore added 😀 Let's call him Floppy if he manages to be appointed :P
chanw4
I thought mine was witty but yours just beat it to death!!! Damn you!!! j/k
Mineria
Sorry, but Elop seems like an idiot.
Selling a productline before it even provves if it is a success or not...
And to the useres that already judge the Xbox One to be a failure, where do you get that f***g idea from?
Even Bing is a lot better than that f***g pos named google these days, at leat it gives me only the relveant results for my searches instead of endless list of bs that has nothing in common with what was searched for, f**k SEO, hope it will die one day.
Also found the Nokia comment funny, bet you never held a 920 or better in your hands and really gave it a testdrive.
Sprig
If the last bit was in reference to me, my comments have nothing to do with the product Nokia make. Looking solely at financial performance
Nokia are a tiny blip compared to what they were when Flop_ took over. The destruction of company value that Flop_ oversaw is one of the worst in history.
