[kevinqi]

I don't know how much of it has been Nadella, but I've been impressed by everything I've heard about Microsoft the last few months - open sourcing .NET, adopting new platforms, this holographic tech and the free Windows 10 upgrade. If this is anything to go by, Nadella is going to do great things at MS.

[jordanpg]

Most of it sounds like run-of-the-mill new products to me. Might be good, might not. Unlikely to make waves in either case.

The open sourcing of .NET is the real news and as far as I'm concerned, the jury is still out on what that actually means for the world. Don't know about you, but I'll be sticking with JVM langs until I see a CLR for OSX on MS's download page.

[aceperry]

If anything, Nadella presents a vastly different attitude from MS than the previous CEOs. For one thing, I haven't seen the incredible arrogance towards other companies and technologies that MS has had in the past. Such as when Ballmer promised to kill linux, and called open source software a cancer. Now MS is open sourcing a lot of software.

Another thing that Nadella is doing is pushing new technologies and ideas which is not usually seen from MS. As the article mentions, MS was usually playing catch up or me too. These are promising changes, but still, because MS has been a fierce competitor who pretty much screwed over a lot of their partners and other companies that they've done business with, they became one of the most feared companies in the tech field. I'm left with the sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Maybe one of the reasons for that is the way MS pushed Windows 8 and their tablets. I've seen the corporate speak and boosterism that their people have been spouting when it first came out. Although it was still under Ballmer's reign, they are recent enough to make me wonder how quickly MS people can change under Nadella. Or if they'll even change. Nadella needs to make a huge impression to both the public as well as to MS employees if he's going to really change the culture and business practices of MS. In summary, Nadella seems to be the best person to do this job.

[mc32]

I'm just glad MS resisted any temptation to go with true and tried leadership in the form of Bill Gates in an attempt to replay Apple's success story. The only thing I would have asked is that they had done this sooner -like after the Vista fiasco or the aborted attempt with the Courier... But retrospect is 20/20. Now to see if eBay can find leadership in the same vein.

[higherpurpose]

None of those things were started under Nadella's leadership.