Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks about his biggest accomplishment, how to make successful acquisitions and how the tech industry could improve its image problem, in an interview with Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Matt Murray. Photo: Rob Alcaraz/ The Wall Street JournalDAVOS, Switzerland—When Satya Nadella took Microsoft Corp.’s helm five years ago, the conventional wisdom was that the company’s glory days were behind it. Its ubiquitous Windows system was losing its primacy and a costly bet on acquiring Nokia’s mobile-phone business had failed to pay off. Microsoft’s stock had stagnated for a decade. Mr. Nadella—Microsoft’s third CEO after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer—soon dismantled the company’s mobile-phone operations and began making cloud computing the heart of Microsoft’s business....

Source: Wall Street Journal February 01, 2019 12:03 UTC