Ch-ch-ch-changes at Microsoft as COO Kevin Turner heading for the exits

Microsoft logo on building. In a blog post this morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that long-time COO Kevin Turner would be leaving after 11 years at the company.
At the same time, Citadel Securities announced on its website home page this morning that Turner would be coming on board as CEO.
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Satya Nadella writing book on reinventing Microsoft and himself: Hit Refresh

While others are looking for a light beach read, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has something a little more ambitious in mind this summer: Working ona book of his own.

Harper Business announced that it will be publishing Nadella’s mix of manifesto, autobiography (but, he stresses, it’s not a memoir), and strategy, which will go on sale November 15, 2017.

The official description:

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Microsoft marches forward with its security plan, releasing Cloud App Security

Business man working with a secure cloud network on a giant touch screen. As Microsoft works its way toward implementing the security plan that CEO Satya Nadella outlined in a talk last Fall in DC, part of that has been creating tools and part buying them. Today, it announced that Adallom, a company it bought last year was becoming generally available and renamed Microsoft Cloud App Security. While the new name lacks the pizazz of the original, it does convey… Read More Continue reading Microsoft marches forward with its security plan, releasing Cloud App Security

Microsoft Begins Making Progress On Nadella’s Broad Security Vision

Business man holding smart phone while pressing a lock button to unlock it. Last fall, Mr. Nadella came to Washington and in a comprehensive speech the Microsoft CEO laid out Microsoft’s broad vision for security in the enterprise. Today, the company made a series of announcements in a lengthy blog post from Microsoft Chief Information Security Officer Bret Arsenault that starts to bring that vision into clearer focus. It’s probably not a coincidence… Read More Continue reading Microsoft Begins Making Progress On Nadella’s Broad Security Vision