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How Microsoft Survived The Cloud Pivot
In 2014, Satya Nadella took over Microsoft at a time when the company was widely viewed as irrelevant in the age of mobile and cloud computing. The previous leadership had doubled down on Windows licensing, missing the shift toward subscription-based services and infrastructure-as-a-service. This episode explores how Nadella fundamentally changed the culture from one of internal competition to collaboration, and how he pivoted the product strategy away from proprietary platforms toward openness, including embracing Linux and competing with AWS. We look at the specific financial metrics that…
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