Orlando : Underscoring three bold ambitions for Microsoft, the tech giant’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella said the company will focus on personal computing, reinvention of productivity and business process and building an intelligent cloud platform.
India will be one of the 13 countries to host the mega launch of the much-awaited Windows 10, the latest version of the popular operating system, by global giant Microsoft on July 29. Microsoft is hosting events across 13 global cities, including New Delhi, to launch the latest edition of its operating system.
Nadella, 47, was addressing over 12,000 Microsoft partners, senior company executives, technology experts and analysts during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2015 at the sprawling Orange County Convention Centre here in the US state of Florida. Noting that Microsoft is focused on helping its customers achieve “greatness through digital technology,” Nadella, who took over as the third CEO in the history of the tech giant in February last year, gave the audience a glimpse of the mission and “sense of purpose” driving the company going forward.
Listing the three “bold ambitions” for Microsoft, Nadella, said one ambition is personal computing, which is “the very core of our company.” “Windows 10 is going to usher in this new era of more personal computing. We couldn’t be more excited, three weeks away from launch. It is not just the technology but what Windows means for this ecosystem is what is driving us,” Nadella said in his keynote address at the conference.
He added that Windows 10 is going to run on everything from phones to tablets to surface hubs as well as to the HoloLens, Microsoft’s first fully untethered, see-through holographic computer. He said Windows 10 will enable users to interact with it in the “most natural way” and they will be able to speak to it touch it and use it seamlessly in their personal and professional lives.
Yoshita Singh
