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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by CamperBob2 on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:40PM (#24873060)
That was Gates.
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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by btilly on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:09PM (#24875349)
Hard to tell.

Ballmer became CEO in 2000. But Bill Gates continued being involved in day to day operations until 2009.

Considering that Microsoft got religious about security in the 2000s, and this was a shift in corporate policy, I give credit to Ballmer.

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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by ThrowawayB7 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:14AM (#24876885)
He's talking about the TwC initiative, which came from Gates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing. Even after stepping down as CEO, Gates maintained an informal role at MS as an ideas guy for a number of years.
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Re:How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around by btilly on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:46PM (#24881842)
The usual tendency is to give credit to the person who comes up with the idea, and the blame to the person who implements it.

But ideas are a dime a dozen. I give credit not to coming up with the idea, but to actually putting in the elbow grease. And there is no question that Ballmer put a lot of elbow grease into keeping the initiative going.

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