Satya Nadella is Microsoft's New Cloud Computing Boss

Microsoft replaced Bob Muglia, president of its $14.9 billion-any-year Tools and Machine Division, who Steve Ballmer fired recently, by moving the engineer-in-chief of its wimpish Online Service Division, Satya Nadella, 43, in to the job. That also tends to make him head of the company's cloud.

Microsoft's pick forced the chief of the Azure platform business, Microsof company Fellow Amitabh Srivastava to give up.

Srivastava is credited together with salvaging NT and commencing Red Dog, which changed into Azure.

Ballmer is offered as saying Nadella's encounter "will help accelerate our momentum while setting the course to deliver the cloud computing scenarios for the future."

Nadella's supposed to have a roadmap and vision for your unit and the fog up.

He's been with the business 19 years. Microsoft said his old job included "overseeing the technical technique for one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the planet," spanning its search, site and advertising platforms.

This individual led the technical side of the Bing release and the integration associated with Yahoo across Bing and AdCenter. Apparently he introduced some top people and All Things Digital credits your pet with striking the advertising and search deal with Yahoo. He once ran Microsoft's Dynamics ERP and also CRM operation.

Muglia simply leaves this summer, remaining for that transition.

Ballmer, who's shifting the furniture around, would like more people with complex backgrounds in Microsoft's best slots.

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