Cloud Computing: Need to Know – Satya’s Microsoft
February 20, 2014
Grazed from WindowsITPro. Author: Paul Thurrott.
After six months of speculation and rumors, Microsoft this month finally announced that it had selected Satya Nadella as its next CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer. But who is Satya Nadella, and are there any clues –in his decades of experience at the software giant or otherwise—to suggest whether he’ll toe the line on "devices and services" or plot a new path for the world’s largest maker of software?
A cursory examination of Mr. Nadella’s resume shows that he hails from Hyderabad, India, has serious education credentials—including an engineering bachelor’s degree, a master’s in computer science, and a second master’s degree in business administration—and worked at Sun Microsystems before joining Microsoft in 1992. But this early experience will almost certainly have less impact on his leadership tendencies than will his two decades at Microsoft…
During this time, he experienced firsthand both the firm’s epic crest of the Windows 95 wave and the subsequent falls to antitrust rulings and faster-moving competitors in new markets. That’s important because the new Microsoft—the reimagined Microsoft, if you will—is seeking to establish itself anew in a computing world that’s driven by highly mobile devices on the client side and online services on the back end, the modern equivalents to the PC and server computing products that Microsoft previously rode to fame and fortune…
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