I've always thinked of MS as filled with old fashioned managers, caring only about legacy stuff and killing any good initiative MS Research came out with.

I was amazed they'd try something new like cloud. I thought they will stick to the desktop and and MS Office until someone will snatch it from their dead cold hands. But Ballmer went and Nadella came. I still think that the company has a lot of Ballmers hidden in a lot of places, waiting for the opportunity to pull the breaks if they sniff that something interesting might happen.