Satya Nadella Officially Named New Microsoft CEO

[z3r010]

Microsoft has just announced that Satya Nadella would replace Steve Ballmer at the helm of the company, thus becoming the third CEO in the history of the software giant.

Just like recent rumors, Satya Nadella has the full support of chairman Bill Gates, who’s expected to work together with the new CEO on a number of projects.

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[Solarstarshines]

Satya Nadella named new CEO of Microsoft

Microsoft names Satya Nadella its next CEO

He is the third person in charge in their 38 year history wondering where this will lead us next :sarc:

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

This line in the linked article scares the snot out of me!

"Satya Nadella previously held the position of Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group."

Considering his former job description, I fear this means M$ is still bound and determined to go to all cloud or otherwise cloud dependent computing, screwing over all the people who don't have access to affordable, unlimited broadband connections.

Edit: I just saw these two videos of interviews with Nadella and Bill Gates; both put heavy emphasis on cloud computing. *&^%$#@!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JwNZBJ_wI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5BhQVuRcTk#t=93

 

[PaulGo]

I was hoping that Microsoft would choose someone from outside the company to bring in some "thinking outside of the box". I hope he can bring in some fresh ideas to energize the PC user base, but I fear he just may be perpetuating the current Microsoft business ideology.

 

[ThrashZone]

I wish him luck along with Microsoft,
This whole rent a os/ office suite.... is a weird concept which might be successful or bust,
I'm personally not interested in Office 365 so any 365 os isn't going to go well with me either

 

[King Arthur]

screwing over all the people who don't have access to affordable, unlimited broadband connections.

Also folks like myself that want local storage and processing capacity. Internet is far from being reliable enough to serve as a single point of failure, nor do I want to entrust all my computing needs onto some server halfway across the world.

 

[Kari]

I like everything what I can see, hear and understand about Nadella. He seems to be quite down to earth geek, I like the modified "Steve Jobs" look and feel.

Both videos Lady F. linked to earlier in this thread show a man with sense of responsibility and brain to share. Nobody, especially not Nadella is talking about a Chromebook like approach where user has only a kind of dummy terminal and everything needed is in the cloud. Local storage is not disappearing.

BTW, it's funny how everybody likes file sharing over the Internet but if you say it in other words, that you use cloud to share your files, the Hell starts freezing. Or how most private users use either an IMAP or Exchange mail service, everything stored in the cloud.

I simply fail to understand how can it be bad if I store my files on SkyDrive and access them from every possible device, everywhere in this globe of ours?

I'm satisfied that maker's of my OS (Windows 8.1) got captain I can respect. Ballmer was IMO a joke.

Good luck, Satya Nadella.

Kari

 

[Golden]

It will be great to see what he brings to the table! I can't wait to see what happens.

 

[Layback Bear]

Sounds like the SOS to me.
Rent this program.
Rent this operating system.
Tablets for ever.
Cloud computing for everything.
I do wonder how business or corporation do business when the internet is down. When the internet goes down for me I just read a book or take a nap.
I guess that is what is expected of industry. Nap rooms or reading rooms for employes. When the 1MC screams the internet is up and working everybody goes back to work.
I understand many things have been in a cloud for quite some time but when the internet went down it didn't shut your business down like cloud everything.

 

[PaulGo]

Good background article on Nadella:

Ctrl, Alt, Nadella: can Microsoft?s new CEO reboot the software giant? | The Verge

 

[Alejandro85]

I don't like too much the "cloud" thing as MS and others want to impose on us, but let's wait to see what comes out of Windows "9" and if it comes to be the same/worse crapware as 8 is or another good thing like XP/7. But anyway, maybe we're reaching conclusions ahead of time? By now all we can make are guesses, let the guy make his first steps and then let's speak about what he has actually done

I simply fail to understand how can it be bad if I store my files on SkyDrive and access them from every possible device, everywhere in this globe of ours?

Problem with using that as the main storage for your files is that you no longer have full control over your data!
When stored "in the cloud", a file is essentially controlled by the company providing the service, that means if they have a failure or are hacked or something, your files are lost, if they decide/are forced to close, your files are lost, if you forgot the password, your files are lost, if your ISP is slow, your files takes ages to transfer, if your ISP goes down, your files are unreachable, if someone inside the company really wants, the have full access to your data.
I don't think "the cloud" is safe or reliable enough for making my main data store, maybe for a secondary backup of something not that important. The nice part, where I definitely agree with you, is that it's good for accessing everywhere, for file transfer and sharing it may come in handy.

 

[sygnus21]

BTW, it's funny how everybody likes file sharing over the Internet but if you say it in other words, that you use cloud to share your files, the Hell starts freezing. Or how most private users use either an IMAP or Exchange mail service, everything stored in the cloud.

Agree. I've been arguing this myself.

Anyway I like what I see. I sense good things coming from Microsoft, especially with Bill Gates helping out.

I know it's too early to say, but the rumors Microsoft's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.