Hyderabad’s Satya may head Microsoft

Aug 25, 2013

Tags:

Microsoft

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella, who heads Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group, is one of the two Indians in the race to become the first non-American chief executive officer of Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker.
The other Indian is former Microsoft employee Vivek ‘Vic’ Gundotra, who is currently senior vice-president, engineering, for Google Inc.
Gundotra is considered to be the key officer of the search giant’s mobile phone and social initiatives.
Nadella headed a team that delivered the Cloud OS, Microsoft’s next generation back-end platform, and suits its focus on catching up in online and mobile computing perfectly.
The Cloud OS platform not only powers all of Microsoft’s Internet-scale cloud services (including O365, Bing, SkyDrive, Xbox Live, Skype and Dynamics) but also fuels global enterprises around the world to meet their most challenging and mission-critical computing needs.
Nadella, 44, and his wife are alumni of Hyderabad Public School 1986 batch.
Next: Satya maintains Hyderabad link

Satya maintains Hyderabad link
DC
Hyderabad: Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella, who heads Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group and is one of the two Indians in the race to the CEO of the firm, still maintains link with the city and he and wife still come here to meet both their parents.
According to reports, Microsoft set up a committee to find a new CEO after Steve Ballmer announced his retirement on Friday. Apart from Nadella and the founder Bill Gates, the committee is expected to consider Microsoft's business development head and former Skype CEO Tony Bates, in-charge of operating systems Terry Myerson, COO Kevin Turner and former Windows unit head Steven Sinofsky.
The panel could also consider former employees like Reed Hastings, the current CEO of Netflix Inc, and Paul Maritz, one of the key officers in the early days of Windows.
Nadella was president of Microsoft's $19 billion server and tools business. In an earlier interview to this newspaper, Nadella had said: “There were many influences of Hyderabad on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back and that gave me time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life."
Vivek ‘Vic’ Gundotra, 45, the other contender, was born in Mumbai. He joined Microsoft in 1991.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/252405" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-9d703c591d61a136df311f38d10a1faa" value="form-9d703c591d61a136df311f38d10a1faa" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="85681213" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>