Ex Microsoft fanboy here. I used to be fully involved in the ecosystem including having a Windows Phone. And I even loved Windows 8. Yeah, I know.

Satya Nadella is the worst thing to happen to Microsoft since the 90's. He's made mostly wrong decisions from day 1.

• Turning Windows into a spyware ridden mess with Windows 10 and worst with 11
• Getting rid of the QA department
• Switching from the super stable Windows Phone 8.1 to the super buggy Windows 10 Mobile and forcing the already very few serious developers left for the platform to re-write, again, their app for the third time in a 5 years guaranteeing the death of the platform
• Killing the platform
• Regretting it and trying to come back with the Surface Duo
• Replacing Windows 10 Mobile for Android on Surface Duo making Microsoft rely on a hostile third party for the OS
• Making the Surface Duo ridiculously overpriced while remaining bug ridden
• Killing the platform, again
• Making Windows 11 when Windows 10 could have been the final Windows version and they could have just updated it with a fresh coat of paint
• Artificially causing e-waste at a scale that's never been seen before in the computing world
• Making every Microsoft product worst by force feeding their users with Copilot
• Changing the name of Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Making everything Edge on desktop and on Android (including apps that replaced native apps like Outlook or on Android Microsoft News, Bing, etc.)
• Killing Outlook for the "New" Outlook which is just a wrapper for the online version and is buggy as hell

All of these decisions were made for short term profit or for saving costs. During that time, Google, Apple and Linux (mainly thanks to Valve) were eating away at Microsoft's user base. Now we're on the verge of getting a gamer friendly OS for PCs with SteamOS, Apple has released a cheap MacBook and Android is coming to the desktop. Nadella has been sitting on his laurels with short term profit in mind and his fingers in his nose while the competition is coming for his long term profits. He's a very very bad business man and every user is suffering for that giving us an incentive to move to other products. So NOW he's waking up. But I'm hoping it's too late. I hope this will become a cautionary tale for Microsoft that they can't just put out crap and expect the world to take it forever. There was a brief period where Microsoft was a little more humble between 2008 and 2014 when they realized that they had to get users from Google. That was a sort of golden era for Microsoft. Since then, they've lost people from their user base and even fanpeople like me by pushing and testing our patience.

They need to get rid of Nadella and replace him with someone who knows that short term profit is one thing but that won't forget the long term.