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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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