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This 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 Nadella

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform.
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Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
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The way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?’
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That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.
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That’s the kind of person that I want to trust. That’s the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.’
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This 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.
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That 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.
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Many 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.
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This is a software-powered world.
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Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.
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The best work happens when you know that it’s not just work, but something that will improve other people’s lives.
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Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
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This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we’re now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.
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One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.
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A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
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Be passionate and bold.
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You’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.
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Like 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.
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Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there’s someone new who’s born with a new idea.
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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?
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I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.
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Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.
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I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.
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Our 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.
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What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.
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In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications.
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Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work.
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This 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.

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This 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.

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