Although Satya Nadella is being widely praised as a terrific choice as Microsoft's new CEO, he won't be completely free of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, his two predecessors who will stay on at the company as a technology advisor and a board member, respectively. The very well-connected Bob Cringely writes that that Nadella would be wise to keep Gates at his side early in his tenure because he'll need Gates to help him to get Ballmer to back off if he decides to diverge from the outgoing CEO's plan to remake Microsoft into a devices and services company.
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