Nadella was born in 1967 in Nizams, Hyderabad, and earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communications from Manipal University, India, before moving to the United States to pursue a Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and later an MBA at the University of Chicago ( University of Chicago) for an MBA.

Vinod V Thomas, who is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S., was Nadella's teacher in India 25 years ago. In an interview with The Times of India, he commented, "I can't recall him immediately, he wasn't the best or the worst student, but the record shows that he was an excellent student and stood out from his classmates."

Before joining Microsoft in 1992, Nadella worked at Sun. The previous position was executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise division. Over the past 20 years, Nadella has been working closely with Microsoft CEO Ballmer and co-founder Gates, and has been supported and recognized by Ballmer on several occasions, which means he will continue to firmly implement the Microsoft transformation strategy previously laid out by Ballmer. In addition, Nadella helped Microsoft launch a cloud version of its Office software, known as Office 365, which Microsoft says is one of its fastest-growing products ever. Microsoft's cloud business revenue grew to $20.3 billion in its last fiscal year, which ended in June 2013, compared with $16.6 billion in fiscal 2011 when he took over.

Nadella is indeed one of the developers of a number of important Microsoft technologies, including databases, Windows servers and developer tools. He is responsible for Microsoft's Azure cloud service, which is well respected in the industry and has been called an alternative to Amazon's cloud service.

Beijing time on the evening of February 4, 2014, Microsoft announced that Bill Gates will no longer serve as chairman of Microsoft, the new position of technology adviser, Thompson (John Thompson) to take over the position of chairman, at the same time, Microsoft announced Nadella (Satya Nadella) as the next CEO.

Satya Nadella (Satya Nadella was born in Hyderabad, India's sixth-largest city, but his Indian accent isn't as pronounced as you might think.

Nadella moved to the United States after earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University. After earning a master's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from the University of Chicago, he joined Microsoft in 1992, where he served under the leadership of Bill Gates and Ballmer, making him an "old man" of the organization.

Microsoft's board of directors believes that Nadella is more familiar with the complexities of Microsoft's internal environment, and can promote new products and business development faster than "paratroopers". Charles Fitzgerald, a former strategy consultant at Microsoft, told The New York Times that Nadella "knows the ins and outs" of Microsoft.

Nadella, who has worked in a number of business units, including Windows and Office, and has led Microsoft's Bing search engine, SQL Server database and Azure cloud computing business, has reported directly to Ballmer for the past three years.

Ballmer is often criticized for being slow to react to new trends, while Nadella is adept at convincing his bosses to move into new areas. He was the first to notice the trend of companies encouraging employees to bring-your-own-device (BYOD), and pointed out to Ballmer the need for Microsoft to develop cloud services, but the latter tended to continue to rely on System Center.

"You come up with an idea, and he [Ballmer] will always say, 'That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard' or 'I don't agree with it.'" To deal with him, Nadella said, "you have to be persistent."

He learned to deal with tyrant bosses when he worked under Bill Gates: "They'll yell at you, call you crazy, accuse you of trying to destroy the whole company. But don't be intimidated by this dramatic scene, just go to them again and again with data to prove your point, because it's all largely a test of whether you really know what you're talking about."

At his urging, Windows AZURE broke with Microsoft's tradition of increasing support for open source data and joined the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) early last year.AZURE supports thousands of open standards and open source software environments, including Linux, Hadoop, MongoDB, Drupal, and Joomla. Microsoft's second-quarter earnings report, released in mid-January, showed a 107 percent increase in revenue for Microsoft's commercial cloud business.

In October 2013, Nadella spoke to Gigaom founder Om Malik about the challenges and opportunities facing Microsoft: "In the enterprise market, I think we're on the offensive. The business I'm directly responsible for is worth more than $20 billion, but at least $2 trillion has been invested in the overall cloud services market. So I think we're on the right track and we've made a good start. Cloud services and big data are no longer in the distant future, they're happening right now."

"In the consumer market, we've launched some hardware products and a new operating system, which are pretty bold moves. We accomplished great things in the desktop era, and people ask 'why aren't your newer products coming out at the same volume level?' But our strategy in this area is clear, touch screens, big screens are very important, and you'll see us continue to innovate with our device products. All in all, the challenge and opportunity for Microsoft is to improve our hardware products and services."

Nadella rarely talks about Microsoft's consumer business. Unlike Ballmer, who has a background in sales, Nadella has no experience in the consumer space, which is significant to Microsoft.

Microsoft's total revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 reached $24.519 billion, up 14 percent from $21.46 billion in the same period last year, while net profit rose 3 percent to $6.56 billion from $6.377 billion in the same period in 2012, exceeding Wall Street analysts' expectations. In terms of earnings, Microsoft's second-quarter growth was largely attributed to a whopping $11.91 billion in devices and consumer products revenue, up 13 percent from the same period in 2012. February 4, 2014, Microsoft's board of directors announced Satya Nadella as chief executive officer and board of directors, the hustle and bustle of Microsoft's new ceo selection to the dust has settled, leading Microsoft out of the "new road" missed opportunities such as search, mobile, is Nadella was given the mission.

Fans of cloud computing

"During the company's transition, Satya Nadella is the best person to lead the company forward," said Bill Gates, Satya has the core engineering skills, clear business vision and unite everyone together in a strong cohesion; he has a strong understanding of how technology is used and experienced globally. is applied and experienced globally is visionary, which is exactly what Microsoft needs to expand product innovation and growth in the future.

Bill Gates will serve on the board of directors in his new role as founder and technology adviser and will spend more time at the company to help Nadella set the direction for the company's future technology and products, a role that the industry generally sees as more of a gatekeeper: "Nadella, who has never served in a CEO role before, lacks some experience, and Gates is better able to help Nadella give the right strategic level advice. Nadella to give the right guidance at the strategic level and avoid making mistakes."

India-born, 46-year-old Satya Nadella, formerly executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise team at Microsoft for 22 years, is in charge of cloud computing and enterprise division of the "veteran". Since joining Microsoft in 1992, Nadella has led major strategic and technological transformations across the company's major products and services, most notably Microsoft's move to cloud computing and the creation of the world's largest cloud infrastructure to support bing, xbox, office and other services.

He has strong ties to one of the most searing trends reshaping the software world -- cloud computing -- and Nadella's first job was at sun microsystems, which was an early champion.

Microsoft is now booming in the enterprise market, especially in the cloud computing market, with ibm, amazon aws, etc., its enterprise business accounted for 50 percent of all revenue, and Nadella at the helm of the department contributed more than a third. As Nadella's "old business", continue to promote enterprise business and maintain more stable growth is one of Nadella's mission, he is also the most capable of leading Microsoft to continue to achieve progress in the enterprise market leader.

With Nadella's strengths, Microsoft will undoubtedly focus more on enterprise and cloud computing business in the future. From the enterprise-level competition pattern, Microsoft in the "cloud" and "service-oriented" in front of the rivals, but in big data and other "intelligent" dimension lags behind the rivals, the next step Can have a bigger breakthrough in this direction, will be the key to the development of Microsoft.

"Safe choice"

Microsoft's new CEO must have a high degree of agreement on Microsoft's future development strategy, or it will be similar to the tragedy of HP's previous CEOs have different strategies.

Many critics believe that the relatively mild character of Nadella does not need to carry out subversive innovation, just in the strategy set by Ballmer, steady progress can walk the road of Microsoft's transformation.

Microsoft's transformation is to adhere to Ballmer's "one Microsoft, one strategy", that is, to realize the enterprise and consumer market **** enjoy the strategic goal of a platform. Over the years, Microsoft has exposed many contradictions in its transformation from a product to a "device + service" company, including internal organizational conflicts and ecological chain partners are drifting away from Microsoft due to more choices, etc. These contradictions can not be resolved by the strong Ballmer, thrown to the moderate Nadella.

Microsoft in the field of mobile action is not fast enough, in the process of transition to the device but difficult, the wind has been held by Google and Apple, Ballmer from the technology, the market and other aspects of the changes and attempts, but the effect is very little. Ballmer before leaving Microsoft carried out a drastic reform, including the acquisition of Nokia, in order to achieve the transformation direction of "devices and services company"; internal reorganization, the former eight product divisions into four new departments, in order to achieve the "one Microsoft, a strategic The goal is "one Microsoft, one strategy".

The slowdown in mobile devices not only makes Microsoft lose the right to speak on the "device side", but will also affect Microsoft's "service" strategy in the future, as Google and Apple continue to strengthen their enterprise-level service capabilities, and more and more people enter the workplace through Apple and Android mobile devices. As Google and Apple continue to strengthen their enterprise-level service capabilities, and more and more people enter the work scene through Apple and Android mobile devices, Microsoft's work and enterprise-level advantages will also be eroded. Similarly, in the cloud and service, Microsoft is not irreplaceable, from Amazon, ibm, Oracle and other "intelligent services" of the full speed of the promotion, as well as their ios and android mobile platform to pay full attention, will make the "intelligent mobile era" this opportunity is divided up. The opportunity is divided up.

From boiling passion to fiery temper, after 14 years at the helm, Ballmer has always shown an excess of energy. His replacement, Nadella, was born in India and prefers quiet reflection, but has a "high emotional intelligence". To create a more innovative and flexible Microsoft, Nadella must have a disruptive "play".

In the dozens of days as CEO of Microsoft, Nadella focused on these things: Nadella personally attended the conference, launched the Office software suite for the iPad platform; yesterday, Microsoft announced that it will no longer charge Windows software licensing fees for smartphones and small-sized tablets. The outside world believes that this move, although it may not be for to bring great benefits to Microsoft, but it means that Microsoft began to transition.

Nadella also unveiled a corporate file app for business users to manage their employees' mobile devices, which they can access whether they are using Microsoft devices or rival devices.

Nadella's moves reflect a clear recognition that Microsoft is a "lost empire". Over the past decades, Windows has dominated the global computer industry, with countless programmers working around the clock to develop applications for the platform, which has always made Windows the center of attention for businesses and individual consumers. On the morning of September 25, 2014, Satya Nadella, the third CEO of Microsoft, officially began his public activities in China. This is his first trip to China after becoming the CEO of Microsoft.

Nadella's trip to China will last two days, and will include conversations with Chinese students, the unveiling of the "Microsoft New Vision" program, a speech at Tsinghua University, and a customer summit. Microsoft declined to disclose other specific plans for the trip.

Nadella's first stop on the 25th will be to talk to Microsoft's "Innovation Cup" winners from Tsinghua and Fudan universities, and the other will be to talk to Tsinghua University students and share his experience from studying in the U.S. to becoming Microsoft's CEO. Both of Satya's activities are closely related to college students, which is very rare for a CEO of a commercial company. Some analysts say that Satya may be showing the outside world that thinking about how to recruit more excellent and innovative Chinese talent is the most important thing for Microsoft under his leadership.