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In February 2014, Satya Nadella became the third CEO of Microsoft. Nadella, more soft-spoken than his predecessors, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, assumed the company’s helm amid one of its stormiest chapters. Ballmer, toward the end of his 14-year tenure, had purchased Nokia’s mobile phone business at great cost ($7.2 billion) but failed to make a dent in the market dominance of Apple and Samsung. Nadella quickly nixed those ambitions and instead ramped up investment in artificial intelligence and commercial cloud computing. The result has been a remarkable turnaround, featuring major growth in cloud services…