Microsoft Board names Satya Nadella as Its Next CEO

Microsoft’s CEO post has been at the center of rumors and leaks for the last couple of months. Today, the company finally announced the successor to Steve Balmer. Meet Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new CEO. The appointment takes effect immediately, so Steve Balmer can go into an earlier than anticipated retirement.
A quick background check on Nadella tells that he joined Microsoft 22 years ago from Sun Microsystems. Having his roots based in India, Nadella moved to the US to study computer science at the University of Wisconsin. At Microsoft, Satya has worked on cloud and enterprise business. He has played an active role in taking Office to the cloud.
As the newly appointed CEO, Satya has lots of challenges and tasks to complete. The first of them would be to transform Microsoft from a software focused company to a device and services and software centric one. This would include the Xbox business and the newly acquired handset business from Nokia. Also, Satya would be facing the task of increasing Microsoft’s presence in the smartphone and tablet business, where it still holds next to nothing market share when compared to the biggies.
But he won’t be alone in facing these hurdles, since the company founder Bill Gates will take the role of Founder and Technology Advisor, to help Nadella take the company in the right direction.