Monday 10 February 2014

The third CEO of Microsoft

  • FULL NAME

    Satya Nadella

  • BIRTHPLACE

    Hyderabad, India

  • BORN

    1967

  • RESIDENCE

    Bellevue, WA

  • EDUCATION

    BS, MSCS, MBA

  • HOBBIES

    Cricket, poetry

As Satya Nadella becomes the third CEO of Microsoft, he brings a relentless drive for innovation and a spirit of collaboration to his new role. He joined Microsoft 22 years ago because he saw how clearly Microsoft empowers people to do magical things and ultimately make the world a better place. Many companies, he says, “aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.”
Nadella, 46, was born in Hyderabad, India. Growing up, playing cricket was his “passion,” and he played it competitively as a member of his school’s team.
Microsoft’s new CEO finds relaxation by reading poetry, in all forms and by poets who are both Indian and American. “It’s like code,” he says. “You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression.” Indeed, he says, the best code is poetry.
He also enjoys watching Test cricket, “which is the longest form of any sport in the world,” with games that can go for days and days. “I love it,” he says. “There’s so many subplots in it, it’s like reading a Russian novel.”
“One of the things that perhaps excites me the most is when I come across something at work, whether it’s somebody who’s really done a great feature in software, come up with a fantastic idea in pricing or done a great customer program, or just an approach to their job that is innovative or brought teams together - and I just, wow, I marvel every day at how people can excel – and that’s what really gets me going.”

Windows Phone 8.1 leaks tip notification centre, Large Live Tiles

The proposed "Action Center" on Windows Phone 8.1 OS appears the same way on the screen as the notification windows in Android - swipe down from top of the screen. Four buttons are seen when the menu drops down - Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, airplane and driving mode along with a battery percentage and date



The Large Live Tile functionality, leaked in a screenshot (below) is also said to be sported by Windows Phone 8.1 OS. The feature has been seen previously with the desktop version of Windows 8.1.
these features might be changed or further modified by the time Microsoft releases them officially

Xbox Reading app for Windows 8

Microsoft has already built Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps for Windows 8, but the next target is books. A recent Microsoft job listing, discovered by Chinese Microsoft blog LiveSino, notes that the software giant is looking to hire a software design engineer to build "a groundbreaking interactive reading app on Windows, which incorporates books, magazines, and comics." Potential candidates would join the same Music, Video, and Reading (MVR) team that has already shipped two built-in Xbox branded apps for Windows 8.
Microsoft’s Office team is also developing its own separate "Office Reader" app for Windows 8. Office Reader is designed to be a cross-format tool for consuming different types of content, including PDFs and textbooks. Microsoft’s Office Reader app is being developed by the Office team at the company, not the Music, Video, and Reading team. Microsoft’s Kirk Koenigsbauer demonstrated the Office Reader app during an employee-only company meeting last year. Both the "Xbox Reading" and Office Reader applications have not been announced yet, but Microsoft is expected to ship its Office Reader app later this year.
The promise of books, magazines, and comics integration suggests this upcoming Xbox-branded reading app could be the first full example of Microsoft’s Nook investment. The software-maker partnered with Barnes & Noble for a $300 million investment in late 2012, but Microsoft has not yet integrated the Nook services into its own apps in any meaningful way. Aside from a Nook Windows 8 app, the promise of accelerated "e-reading innovation across a broad range of Windows devices" has not yet come to fruition.