By Matthias Bastian
Publication Date: 2025-11-16 10:57:00
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has declared that Microsoft will become a completely new company, effective immediately.
That’s the only way the company can keep up with the sweeping PR promises laid out in Nadella’s latest article, where he pledges to move beyond “zero-sum thinking and the winner-take-all hype.”
The irony is hard to miss for anyone who remembers Microsoft’s long history of locking entire industries into its ecosystem: Windows, Office, Azure, GitHub, and everything orbiting them. Even LinkedIn, the company’s B2B network, is known for burying external links to keep…
