Zhang allows Microsoft to accelerate transformation and adapt to market changes

In the field of ICT, Microsoft can be called a true ship, the recent Microsoft is doing large-scale restructuring and restructuring, the enormous challenges to be imagined. Zhang, chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group, has a double responsibility: first, he led the Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group to do a good job of Microsoft's transformation of the engine, because the Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group for product development is the only outside the United States to target global product innovation, There is a need to create new technologies to support Microsoft's entire cloud-wide offerings, including software and services, and as the main catalyst for Microsoft's public cloud to land in China, to continue to expand the size of the public cloud in China, as well as other products covering the Cloud + end in China.

The 2013 Microsoft Azure Project landed in China, it is reported that the current azure progress is very smooth, even in short supply, not only multinationals to Microsoft's public cloud more trust, for interested in internationalization of Chinese enterprises, Microsoft Public Cloud deployment of the characteristics of the global scope is also very attractive. When it comes to public cloud products, Zhang says it will become simpler and easier to operate in the future, which is the direction of the Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group.

In addition, the Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group has contributed to the transformation of Microsoft to adapt to the changes and rhythms of the market quickly. For Microsoft, once we know it is a software company, and restructured Microsoft to lock its business in the device + services, Cloud + 4 block, this structural adjustment for research and development has also brought great challenges, in the past is the development of a separate operating system, And now not only for the end of the operating system and the cloud-oriented operating system, the development of the 4 major business needs are horizontal and vertical staggered rather than a single and closed. In addition, with the rapid development of mobile Internet, changes in customer demand, product development cycle and mode will be changed, Zhang said that the SQL product update cycle from the past two years shortened to the present 6 months, and even if necessary at any time can be updated optimization, research and development personnel have 25% of the time is to do operations and services.

Zhang, as an important driver of Microsoft's transformation, has made important achievements in the field of technology innovation from leading the Asia-Pacific Research and Development group and from the Cloud + End market expansion.