Since Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014, the transformation of Microsoft has been incredible. Let’s explore how he evolved the company from many previously missed opportunities.

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SHOW NOTES:

AREAS OF STRUGGLE FOR MICROSOFT pre-2014

Social Networking
Search
Mobile
Streaming Video
Mac vs. Windows

AREAS OF TRANSFORMATION UNDER SATYA NADELLA (since 2014)

Windows to OS Agnostic
Software company to Cloud computing company
Embrace Open Source Software
Gaming
Refocus on modern developers (VSCode, GitHub, OSS, etc.)
Microsoft Xbox and Surface (hardware)
Cybersecurity for the Internet
Not competing with customers and ecosystem
Collaboration systems

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The Transformation of Microsoft