Nadella making Microsoft mull Bill Gates’s future: Report WASHINGTON: Microsoft is nearing a decision on its new chief executive, with Indian-born insider Satya Nadella the leading candidate, US media reported. The Wall Street Journal reported that a decision was likely as early as next week and that the board was leaning towards Nadella, who heads the US tech giants cloud and enterprise division. Technology news website Re/code, meanwhile, said Nadella was prepared to take the CEO job but wanted Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates to play a bigger role with new management. One possibility in the reshuffle, the reports said, would be to name a new executive chairman, possibly the companys lead director, John Thompson, a former CEO at Symantec. But the Journal reported that Thompson was balking at this role. Re/code said Nadella has asked Gates to help with technology and product problems, but that in order to do that and manage his philanthropic efforts, Gates would need to step down as chairman at the company he founded in the 1970s. Outgoing Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer announced last year he was stepping down as the company struggles to keep up in the mobile devices sector. Ballmer was a classmate and friend of Bill Gates from their days at Harvard University in the 1970s. He took over from Gates in 2000 but earlier this year said he will step down by August 2014. Nadella heads the team that runs the public, private and service provider clouds for Microsoft. Previously, Nadella was president of Microsofts $19 billion server and tools business. He is a native of Hyderabad, India and earned degrees from Mangalore University, the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and the University of Chicago. For any queries related to Software Product and Animation please log on to : locustechsoft #locustechsoft
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 10:46:00 +0000
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