Microsoft

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Everything! Microsoft is in free fall. Most employees are unhappy, and although they pretend otherwise, everybody knows it is a lost game for Microsoft.

1. Partners are leaving Microsoft like autumn leaves falling off a tree. Microsoft hires, and contrary to what Satya mumbles, continues to hire stereotypical employees who know nothing about business and how to treat partners and clients. Most MS FTE employees think the company is doing well - from consumption to technology, MS has nothing to offer. Shamelessly copies from Apple and even small startups to portray the company as cool - it is quite sad.

Company needs a blood transfusion. Here are my two cents:

1. Fire all of your Partner XX (PTS, PAM, etc.). They are not doing anything.
2. Change v- to FTE. This is not the 1800s. Learn from the civil rights movement. Your name is no longer good on a resume, as most companies resent you. You are equal to Walmart!
3. Stop buying technologies you were unable to expand and stop killing them. I mean the mobile and phone business - Sidekick, Nokia! Come on, you know you can't do this.
4. Stop copycating small open-source companies. You have already lost the boat - too late, too little. So don't mess with IoT, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Adafruit. No matter how many times you print their logos and beg, you will never be an open-source company.
5. Hire smart people, not snobs.
6. Provide value. What is the WPC (World Partner Conference)? Why on earth should they pay $2500+ to attend a measly marketing event to watch how you fixed your last bugs?
7. Stop selling open-source technologies and call it your Azure cloud. Hadoop is Google's open-source technology. Learn how to invent and stop selling it as a hosting platform for your low-quality data centers.
8. Provide a decent innovation center. Stop copying Oculus Rift.
9. Your interview and onboarding process is hideous.

Get out of your office and see the fall of the company.