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RandomOpinion on Feb 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Satya Nadella revived Microsoft

Why blame Nadella? Terry Myerson headed up the Windows Phone division during its long slide into oblivion before being promoted to head up the entire Windows division when Nadella became CEO. He's specifically responsible for dropping the ball, if anyone is.

simonh on Feb 10, 2017 [–]

I think he did a fantastic job, modern WP is a great product, it was just too late and by then the situation was unrecoverable.

anjc on Feb 10, 2017 | [–]

I agree with this. WP is amazing.

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