Cloud Computing: Microsoft report card – Grading Satya Nadella’s first year as CEO, so far
December 1, 2014
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Todd Bishop.
Microsoft investors will gather Wednesday morning for a yearly tradition, the company’s annual shareholders meeting at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Wash. It’s Satya Nadella’s first shareholders meeting since becoming CEO nine months ago, and it caps a year of massive change for the company.
If Nadella follows the tradition set by his predecessors, he will give a broad update on the company and do his best to persuade shareholders to buy into his vision. That vision, in his words, is to make Microsoft the “productivity and platform company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world.”…
What the heck does that mean? Microsoft, which built its business by making the dominant operating system and productivity applications for PCs, is now betting on its ability to do the same for a new world in which computing extends far beyond our desktops — connected and powered by increasingly intelligent cloud services, driven by data, and working across many devices…
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