'Thank you, Narendra Modi.' Satya Nadella lauds govt's digital push, says Microsoft will help India 'be a light for the world'
The Microsoft top boss in on a 4-day official visit.
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Satya Nadella thanked PM Modi for an 'insightful meeting'.
Microsoft top boss Satya Nadella is gung-ho on India, and its tech prowess. The Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft on Thursday lauded the Narendra Modi government for its "deep focus on sustainable and inclusive economic growth led by digital transformation."
In a LinkedIn post, the tech titan thanked Prime Minister Modi for "an insightful meeting", and said that Microsoft was ready to ally with India in making its Digital India mission a success.
Nadella, while posting a picture with the PM, wrote that the tech superbrand would help India "be a light for the world."
Earlier on Wednesday, Nadella also caught up with the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. The two discussed several issues including governance and security in the digital domain.
Great to meet Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation @satyanadella.Discussed delivery, governance and security… https://t.co/r1L84lXaYy
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) 1672829763000
On Tuesday, Nadella stressed the importance of cloud-based services, which are energy efficient in nature. He said the adoption of such technologies is rising and proving to be a “game changer”. “Cloud-native applications have yet not begun…by 2025 you are going to have most of the application anybody builds really at that efficient frontier of cloud net,” Nadella said.
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Nadella's four-day official India visit kicked off from Mumbai on Tuesday with a Microsoft industry summit. This is his first trip to the country since February 2020, and comes just weeks after Alphabet Inc's top boss Sundar Pichai visited India. Pichai, too, had called on the Prime Minister and met a host of other ministers and stakeholders.
Earlier last year, Nadella was conferred with the Padma Bhushan for distinguished services to the nation. The Hyderabad-born, as well as Pichai and Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran, were among the 17 people who received one of India’s highest civilian awards last year. He received the honour formally in San Francisco from India’s Consul General Dr TV Nagendra Prasad.
The 55-year-old executive has been widely credited with transforming the iconic software maker into a $198 billion technology powerhouse with a focus on mobile and Cloud. Microsoft has operated in India for more than 32 years now.
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It was a moment of pride, yet again, for Indian talent on Monday. Parag Agrawal became front-page news and among one of the most-searched keywords on the Internet, hours after his elevation as Twitter top boss was announced. The Chief Technology Officer of the micro-blogging platform, right after the news went public, expressed “deep gratitude” for outgoing Twitter boss Jack Dorsey. Agrawal, an IIT-Bombay alumnus, in a tweet said that he was very “excited for the future.”
With his elevation to the top role at Twitter, the 37-year-old Agrawal joins the esteemed club of India-born executives calling the shots in Global Inc.
From Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai to Shantanu Narayen among others, Indian talent has gone places. Here’s a look at some of the tech names that have done India proud.
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A tech titan quoting Oscar Wilde? Well, yes. Satya Nadella did that after he sent out the first mail to employees as Microsoft Chief Executive Officer in February 2014. Since taking over from Steve Ballmer, who is a long-time friend of co-founder Bill Gates, the Manipal Institute of Technology alumnus has often quoted literature and poetry to drive home Microsoft’s changing vision in a fast-changing metaverse,
Born in Hyderabad, Nadella worked at Sun Microsystems before he joined Microsoft in 1992. After assuming charge in the driver’s seat, he has steered a shift toward cloud computing via the Azure platform and a much-improved Windows 10. Consequently his efforts have paid off - and in 2020, the tech giant’s stock price saw a rise of 26.3 per cent. A cricket aficionado, Nadella is a big fan of Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble.
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Madras-born Pichai Sundarajan, also known as Sundar Pichai, became the Google CEO in 2015. Four years on, he took over as the CEO of its parent company Alphabet. A B.Tech from IIT-Kharagpur, he studied at Stanford University. The 49-year-old has been credited for playing a stellar role in the development of the Google Chrome browser. Pichai, who joined Google in 2004, was born in Madurai and studied metallurgical engineering at IIT. Under him, Alphabet’s market capitalisation stands at $1.04 trillion.
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Nadella is not the only one who brought glory to the old city of Hyderabad. Giving him company is Shantanu Narayen, who was also born in the city. In 2005, Narayen was appointed as president and CEO of Adobe. He went on to become CEO two years later. During his stint as Adobe’s top boss, he has successfully facilitated the development of a cloud-based subscription approach, generating recurring revenues. An alumnus of Osmania University, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, and Bowling Green State University.
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In April 2020, IBM got a new superboss in Arvind Krishna. Prior to becoming CEO, he served as senior vice-president of cloud and cognitive software at the tech major. In 2016, Wired magazine had lauded his work on blockchain technology. Born into a Telugu-speaking family in the west Godavari district of coastal Andhra, he studied at St Joseph’s Academy in Dehradun. Later he pursued a BTech degree in electrical engineering from IIT-Kharagpur. Krishna has been credited with planning IBM's US$34-billion purchase of Red Hat, an open-source software company. After taking over as CEO from Ginni Rometty, he tried to focus on artificial intelligence and the cloud to revive growth after years of stagnation. Krishna has reorganised the 109-year-old tech giant around a hybrid-cloud strategy, which allows customers to store data in private servers and on multiple public clouds, including those of rivals Amazon.com and Microsoft. This has led to IBM’s total cloud revenue increasing 21% to $6.5 billion in the first quarter of 2021.
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