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India abuzz with Satya Nadella’s hiring

In choosing Satya Nadella as CEO of Microsoft, the company has not only chosen an accomplished technologist and administrator but what’s turning out to be a favorite son of his home country, India. Nadella’s appointment is front page news in …

Satya Nadella is Microsoft’s new CEO, Gates steps down as Chairman of the Board

Microsoft, in a press release this morning, has made the official announcement that Satya Nadella, a 22 year Microsoft veteran, becomes the third CEO in the 30 year history of the company, effective immediately

In addition, the company announced …

Everyone’s posting their Satya Nadella interviews… here’s ours (from 2007)

Back in 2007, Microsoft held what turned out to be a one-time event, called Searchification. Microsoft invited a number of media types down to Mountain View, California (to Microsoft’s offices there, where Live Search was headquartered at that time) to …

Bing, Bill Gates, and the Board: Microsoft to retool?

A trio of new rumors have been circulating the past few days, of course perhaps overshadowed by a fourth, that Microsoft is about to choose a new CEO. Last week, Bloomberg reported that longtime Microsoft veteran Satya Nadella could …

Satya Nadella and the Young Guns

A pair of posts in the past twenty four hours, from Re/Code and Bloomberg, would have us believe that the next CEO of Microsoft could very well be an insider, Satya Nadella, and a decision could be coming as …

OneDrive: Has Microsoft screwed up the branding, again? (UPDATED)

You know the story: Microsoft, at a time when they’re facing fierce competition from both Box and Dropbox, lost a European Union court battle with British Sky Broadcasting, known as BSkyB but promoting products under the “Sky” brand, rather than …

OneDrive and Office Online: naming done right?

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the new name for its cloud storage service, having been forced to drop SkyDrive for OneDrive. Just a few hours later, word filtered out that another new change is in the works, a rename from Office Web …

SkyDrive is now OneDrive – will Office Web Apps soon be “Office Online”?

Just this morning, Microsoft made official their new name for SkyDrive, it’s now “OneDrive” (see our post on the short history of the many names of OneDrive). Now, word is filtering out that OneDrive may not be the only …

A short history of the many lives of OneDrive

This morning, Microsoft debuted the new name for SkyDrive, OneDrive, which it was required to drop after a lawsuit by BSkyB, who own the “Sky” brand and are using it for their own online services. The new name keeps …

Microsoft SkyDrive renamed to OneDrive

Microsoft today announces the SkyDrive will become OneDrive. OneDrive.com preview site is available and titled “OneDrive is coming soon”. Users can sign up on the OneDrive site to be first to know when OneDrive is rolled out. And don’t forget …