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Big focus on internal culture shift, allowing Linux adoption and OSS to flow freely, heavy focus on cloud, building a decent hardware business, and very strateg
by reilly3000 5y ago
Big focus on internal culture shift, allowing Linux adoption and OSS to flow freely, heavy focus on cloud, building a decent hardware business, and very strategic enterprise partnerships ie Salesforce. Let’s not discount tech stock valuation inflation is nearly unprecedented at this point, some credit is due there.
Still, Balmer was driving the company off a cliff with his brutish orthodoxy. Nadella transformed the company based on new assumptions about positioning in the modern digital economy, not the desktop days.