HISTORY OF DEV

February 4, 2014

Satya Nadella named Microsoft CEO

MicrosoftThe software giant behind Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox — founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.'s board appointed Satya Nadella CEO on February 4, 2014 — starting the cloud-first, open-source era.

What it was for

Satya NadellaNadella accelerated AzureMicrosoft's cloud platform — virtual machines, storage, databases, and managed application services., open-sourced .NET, acquired GitHubA platform for Git hosting, pull requests, and CI — the center of open-source collaboration., and championed VS Code and TypeScriptJavaScript with static types — compiles to JS and powers large front-end and Node codebases.. For developers, MicrosoftThe software giant behind Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox — founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. transformed from Windows-only vendor to cross-platform tools company.

People

  • Satya Nadella — ceo

Companies

  • Microsoft

Why it's here

Nadella's appointment reversed MicrosoftThe software giant behind Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox — founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.'s developer reputation.

Why it mattered

It legitimized open sourceSoftware whose source code is freely available to use, modify, and redistribute. inside the company that once fought Linux.

What it solved

MicrosoftThe software giant behind Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox — founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. was losing cloud and mobile developers to open, cross-platform stacks.

Media

  • Satya Nadella
    ImageSatya Nadella

    Brian Smale and Microsoft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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