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I read the entire article, and I love how virtually every comment here is what Dan wrote about.
by underdeserver 2y ago
I read the entire article, and I love how virtually every comment here is what Dan wrote about.
- underdeserver 2y agoAlso, I agree with the gist of the article, in that a lot of Nadella's success is stuff that takes more than 3-4 years to execute. Ballmer, or Microsoft under Ballmer, had to have been laying the groundwork for Azure, TypeScript and VS code before they took off under Nadella.
- ytoawwhra92 2y ago> Ballmer, or Microsoft under Ballmer, had to have been laying the groundwork for Azure, TypeScript and VS code before they took off under Nadella. More specifically: Nadella under Ballmer laid the groundwork for those things. Dan lists three big wins for Ballmer: Bing, Azure, Office365. Nadella led Bing and Azure. Not sure where Office365 sat in the org chart, but even if he wasn't managing it a _lot_ of services at Microsoft at that time relied on technology that was developed in Bing and Azure. He was promoted for good reason.
- underdeserver 2y agoGood point. I wasn't aware of that, and I think it should have been mentioned in the blog post.
- al_borland 2y agoBut weren't those the areas Nadella was over before becoming CEO? One could argue that Nadella was laying his own groundwork.