Microsoft employees and Silicon Valley agree on new CEO: Skype Bates

Microsoft is selecting Mr. Ballmer's successor, and recently Bloomberg reported that Ford CEO Alan Mulally and the Indian-American executive responsible for the business of server software and development tools within Microsoft were among the two most likely candidates. But employees within Microsoft and "almost everyone in Silicon Valley" have reached a consensus on Microsoft's most suitable CEO, according to BusinessInsider of the US news website and AllThingsD of the technology website. That is Skype's past leader, Bates (Tony-bates). Ford's Mulally is the top-ranked outside executive, Nadra is the first person to be an in-house executive, Bloomberg said. But for many people, Mulally is a "scratching head" of Microsoft, he is not a technology circle, lack of it foresight, does not seem to revitalize Microsoft's long-term solution. Mulally's biggest capital was the excellent results of Boeing and Ford Motor Company. For now, Microsoft, facing the challenges of mobile Internet, needs to transform itself, and Mulally can meet the changing needs of Microsoft. The Indian-American executive, Nadra, has succeeded in leading Microsoft's most Promising business unit (server software, development tools, cloud computing) as a potential candidate, and in fact, Microsoft is a corporate-oriented company, so it is expected to promote the country. However, according to sources, within Microsoft, employees most wanted to be CEO of Bates, who followed Skype to join Microsoft. AllThingsD's well-known female journalist Kara-swisher (TechCrunch co-founder) also said that, from what she learned, "almost everyone in Silicon Valley" thought Bates should be CEO. Bates is an insider and outsider to Microsoft. He was an insider because he had been working at Microsoft for two years and said he was an outsider because he didn't work long enough at Microsoft. He served as CEO of Skype, experienced in mobile internet and consumer products, and he worked for Cisco Systems to understand how big companies and the business market work. Bates also had a disadvantage, he was in charge of Skype less than a year, most of the time to help Skype to the transition to Microsoft, and he did not lead a large listed companies on a scale comparable to Microsoft. In addition, during Microsoft, he did not participate in major projects, "Resume capital" is not convincing. Kara-swisher, a female journalist, said that the more than 10 top executives she had contacted, as well as several Microsoft executives, thought Bates was the best fit to succeed Ballmer. A source close to Microsoft said that if Bates was elected CEO of Microsoft, it would mean that Microsoft signaled to the global technology industry that Microsoft would be more proactive and industry-wide in the future. The source said that Ford CEO Alan Mulally is only in one situation suitable for Microsoft CEO, that is, this is a transitional CEO. Bates admitted to the media in 2011 that he had a life goal of 45Before he was a former CEO of a company. In October 2010, when he was hired as Skype's ceo,2011 May, Microsoft bought Skype from ebay for $8.5 billion trillion.