WALL-E (film), 13
Wall Street Journal, 179, 230
Wal-Mart, 3
Washington Post, 80
Watsa, Prem, 20
Web, 49, 99. See also Internet
websites, 28
Weiner, Jeff, 137–38, 182, 232
Westworld (film), 149–50
WHiPS (Windows High-Powered Summits), 108–9
Widmer, Ted, 24
Willans, Geoffrey, 154–55
Williams, Emma, 158
Windows, 2, 26–27, 46, 47, 53, 68, 71–72, 89, 103, 109, 125, 137, 222
devices run on, in ICU, 41–42
free upgrades, 105–6
future PC platform and, 110
mobile devices, 59
point-of-sales market, 129
Windows 3.1, 28
Windows 8, 66
Windows 10, 28, 85, 89, 97–100, 134, 144
upgrades, 42
Windows 10 MR devices, 144
Windows 95, 28, 98
Windows Mixed Reality, 89
Windows NT, 28–30, 128
Windows Phone, 67, 72–73
Windows Server, 53, 55
Windows Vista, 147
Windows XP, 147
Wired, 234
women, 111–17, 218
Women @ Microsoft, 116–17. See also employee resource groups (ERGs)
Word, 104, 121
workstations, 26–27
World Bank, 217
worldview, 69–70, 76–77
World War II, 188
Wright, Wilbur, 209–10
Xamarin, 137
Xbox, 2, 59, 65, 89, 106–8, 145
Xbox Live, 61
Xbox One, 161
Xbox Video, 171
Xerox PARC, 30
Xiaoice, 195–96
Yahoo, 3, 51, 52, 58, 134, 174
Yale Law School, 186
Yammer, 110
Young Men and Fire (Maclean), 56
Z80 computer, 21, 143
Zander, Jason, 58
zero-sum game, 124, 130
Zika epidemic, 142
Zo, 195–97
Zocdoc, 218
Zonis, Marvin, 29
Acknowledgments
I’ve often said that the best lines of computer code are like poetry. The writer struggles to compress so much thought and feeling into the fewest lines possible while still communicating the fullness of expression. Although the prose we’ve written here does not approach poetry, the writing process was nonetheless intense, and in the end rewarding. For that, there are many people to thank.
As I wrote in my dedication, I owe so much to two families. At home, Anu and our three beautiful children as well as our parents back in India.
My other family has been Microsoft for more than two decades. I owe a lot to Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Steve Ballmer, who together created the opportunity for all of us at Microsoft to innovate, scale, and serve customers around the world. I have admired and learned from each of them throughout my career. Our senior leadership team is my partner in this continuing transformation, and I want to offer them my most sincere thanks and appreciation: Judson Althoff, Chris Capossela, Jean-Philippe Courtois, Kurt DelBene, Scott Guthrie, Kathleen Hogan, Amy Hood, Rajesh Jha, Peggy Johnson, Terry Myerson, Kevin Scott, Harry Shum, Brad Smith, and Jeff Weiner. None of our work would be possible without the creativity and talent of every single Microsoft employee and partner.
Our board of directors: John Thompson, Reid Hoffman, Teri L. List-Stoll, G. Mason Morfit, Charles H. Noski, Dr. Helmut Panke, Sandra E. Peterson, Charles W. Scharf, John W. Stanton, and Padmasree Warrior.
My coauthors and I relied on a number of experienced publishing hands from start to finish. Karl Weber brought a gifted touch both to the development of the manuscript and to the copy itself. Jim Levine, my agent, was always a calm, guiding voice throughout the process. And our editor and publisher, Hollis Heimbouch at HarperCollins, was encouraging before we had even written a word, took a chance on our ideas once we jotted them down, and served as our Virgil through the dark forest.
The Microsoft Library and Archives team, Kimberly Engelkes, Nicole Partridge, and Amy Stevenson, provided invaluable fact-checking and a useful set of notes at the end of the book.
I cannot thank my terrific staff enough for their daily support—Jason Graefe, Cynthia Thomsen, Bonita Armstrong, Caitlin McCabe, Colette Stallbaumer, Chad DeVries, Megan Gray, Jeff Furey, and the entire team.
Our communications and marketing experts, including Frank X. Shaw, Bob Bejan, Steve Clayton, Doug Dawson, and John Cirone and their teams. This group was invaluable in reading the manuscript, partnering with HarperCollins, and getting the word out about the book.
Special thanks to Matthew Penarczyk in our legal department, and to the many who contributed ideas and thinking throughout: Rolf Harms, Jon Tinter, Matt Booty, Alex Kipman, R. Preston McAfee, Justin Rao, Glen Weyl, Victor Heymeyer, Mike Tholfsen, Nate Jones, Turi Widsteen, Chinar Bopshetty, Michael Friedman, Krysta Svore, Peter Lee, Eric Horvitz, Kate Crawford, Danah Boyd, Chris Bishop, Dev Stahlkopf, John Seethoff, Abigail Sellen, Ryan Calo, and Prem Pahlajrai. Sports journalist Suresh Menon, editor of Wisden India Almanack, suggested the cricket writing used in Chapter 2, and was kind enough to offer helpful guidance.
Walter Isaacson not only provided early input for the book’s direction but also interviewed me onstage at the Aspen Ideas Festival where we first announced the book. Tina Brown and her husband, Harold Evans, kindly hosted Anu and me at their wonderful home in New York City where we discussed Microsoft and some of the ideas in the book with other writers and thinkers. Tim O’Reilly interviewed me on these topics at his innovative What’s the Future (WTF) conference in San Francisco, and I wish him the best of luck with his latest book.
Lastly, I want to thank Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols, my coauthors, for their partnership on this project—for encouraging me to pursue it, for helping me to craft it, and for working with me to make it as meaningful as possible.
About the Author
Satya Nadella is a husband, a father and the chief executive officer of Microsoft – only the third in the company’s forty-year history. On his twenty-first birthday, Nadella emigrated from Hyderabad, India, to the United States to pursue a master’s degree in computer science. He joined Microsoft in 1992. As much a humanist as a technologist, Nadella defines his mission and that of the company he leads as empowering every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more.
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