Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?
SATYA NADELLATechnologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?
SATYA NADELLAThis is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places – as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.
SATYA NADELLAOur industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.
SATYA NADELLAMicrosoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
SATYA NADELLAThat’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.
SATYA NADELLAOur mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.
SATYA NADELLAFinally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work.
SATYA NADELLAIf you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can’t really look at every failure as a failure, you’ve got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.
SATYA NADELLAThat means at times we’ll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.
SATYA NADELLAMany companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
SATYA NADELLABe passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.
SATYA NADELLAA big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
SATYA NADELLALike anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish.
SATYA NADELLAYou’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.
SATYA NADELLAOur first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example — it is the world’s best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem.
SATYA NADELLAIn the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications.
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