Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now doubles as the corporate’s chairman

On February 4th, 2014, Microsoft discovered its new CEO within the cloud — Azure boss Satya Nadella took the highest job, Steve Ballmer retired, and Bill Gates stepped down as chairman. Now, after rising Microsoft to turn into one of the crucial useful firms on the earth but once more, Nadella has now been unanimously elected chairman of the Microsoft board.

It’s the primary time in twenty years that Microsoft’s chairman may also be its CEO, after Bill Gates initially stepped down as CEO in 2000 (Gates left the Microsoft board completely in 2020), and it’s a testomony to how a lot Nadella is now trusted to steer the corporate ahead. When Gates stepped down as chairman in 2014, the board elected unbiased chairman John Thompson, who’d beforehand been CEO and chairman of Symantec and who’ll stay an unbiased director on the Microsoft board.

We spoke to Nadella in 2018 about how he was altering Microsoft, and the way Windows wasn’t the way forward for the corporate, however somewhat cloud companies. Windows 10 was imagined as a ongoing service, too, however PC gross sales circled in 2020 after Microsoft ended help for Windows 7, and began to see massive progress in 2021. It certain looks like the corporate now believes in distinct variations once more: Windows 11 is coming quickly.