Cloud Computing: Decoding Satya Nadella’s Microsoft

Grazed from CiteWorld. Author: Simon Bisson.

At every speech he’s made so far, Microsoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella has talked about his vision of the future of computing. Having a vision is good for Microsoft, a company that seemed lost, struggling to find relevance in a world dominated by the new giants of Silicon Valley. Now the sleeping giant has awoken, first with Office on the iPad, then with new versions of Windows, then with Cortana, Surface 3, and on and on, five months of announcement after announcement.

Much of what Microsoft has delivered was born under Nadella’s predecessor Steve Ballmer, but much of it has come from the groups touched by Nadella’s career, from Bing to Azure, to Office 365 and beyond. Much of it has also come from Microsoft’s secret sauce, the scientists and engineers of Microsoft Research…

Having a big vision is important. Microsoft used to talk about “a computer on every desk and in every home,” a vision it clearly succeeded in delivering. But what do you do when you’ve delivered that vision? What do you do when you’ve walked on the moon? It’s hard to find a new vision that will motivate 100,000 people from all around the world. You need to shoot for another moon, another dream that’s almost attainable, yet currently out of reach…

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