Microsoft’s Transformation and Presence at Dreamforce:
Satya Nadella and Jessie live in a role that would not have been possible a few years ago, demonstrating Microsoft’s change.

The Soul of Microsoft:
Nadella emphasizes the importance of the notion of finding a company’s soul. He shares an experience with his former manager, Doug Burgum, who prompted him to reflect on the deeper meaning of work. Nadella suggests that the soul of a company is collective, made up of the individuals who work there.

Microsoft’s Mission and Empowerment:
Nadella defines Microsoft’s soul through its mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. He describes his motivation for working at Microsoft and emphasizes its role in enabling individual and organizational success. Nadella traces the concept of empowerment as the constant thread in Microsoft’s 40-year history, from the first lines of code to cloud computing.

Cultural Transformation Under Satya Nadella:
Satya Nadella emphasizes the significance of culture in defining Microsoft’s excellence. He advocates for a learning, living culture anchored in a growth mindset. The goal is to foster a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability.

Diversity and Inclusion:
Nadella recognizes diversity as an existential need for Microsoft given its global reach. He stresses the importance of a diverse workforce to represent the diverse customer base. Integrating diversity into every aspect of the company is a high priority.

Three Key Ambitions:

1. Productivity Reinvention:
Microsoft aims to enhance individual, organizational, and overall economic success through digital technology.

2. Intelligent Cloud Development:
Harnessing data and converting it into actionable intelligence is a core ambition.

3. Natural and Personal Computing:
The goal is to make computing more ambient and ubiquitous, enhancing user experiences.

Productivity Redefined:
Nadella’s definition of productivity centers on maximizing each moment of life. Software and services should help individuals reclaim their time for both work and personal enjoyment.

Platform Harmonization:
Microsoft’s identity revolves around being a platform company. It harmonizes multiple interests, including end-users, third-party developers, IT, regulators, and governments. Strategic partnerships are crucial for Microsoft’s success. The company has a history of enabling the success of others on its platforms, fostering a mutually beneficial ecosystem.

Overview:
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella discusses the evolving landscape of devices and mobility, emphasizing mobility as a user experience instead of device-centric. He explains Microsoft’s strategy for supporting this shift, including building their OS, Windows 10, to offer a continuous experience across different platforms and devices.

Device Mobility:
Nadella believes that the next wave of computing involves wearable devices, eyeglasses, and other sensors that can run general-purpose computations. Mobility is about the user’s ability to move seamlessly across devices, not just the mobility of a single device.

Microsoft’s Strategy:
By building their own operating system, Microsoft aims to provide a consistent experience across different devices, from Raspberry Pi to holographic computers. Windows 10 is designed to support mobility by offering a single platform and store for applications. Microsoft’s endpoints, such as Skype and Outlook, are available on iOS and Android platforms.

Demo Preview:
Nadella teases a demonstration that will illustrate the concept of mobility of experience, particularly in the context of reinventing productivity and transforming the nature of work.

Changing Nature of Work:
1. Work experiences should transcend device limitations and be accessible across all devices.
2. Conversations emerge as the new platform and productivity driver, facilitating collaboration around work artifacts.
3. Cumulative intelligence and knowledge within an organization become key drivers of productivity.

Outlook on iPhone: A Unique Experience:
1. Outlook on iPhone, featuring a suite of Microsoft applications, showcases a unique and powerful experience.
2. Outlook serves as the best email client on iOS for Gmail and Exchange, demonstrating Microsoft’s aspiration to deliver exceptional products.

Focus Feature:
1. Outlook’s Focus feature leverages machine learning to prioritize emails that truly require attention, enhancing email triage efficiency.
2. Focus helps users avoid distractions and concentrate on the most critical emails.

Integration with Salesforce:
1. Outlook seamlessly integrates with Salesforce, enabling users to add emails to Salesforce records directly from Outlook.
2. This integration streamlines workflows, allowing users to view Salesforce data and records within Outlook, enhancing productivity on the go.

Conversations are the New Platform:
Email is evolving with the introduction of Groups, enabling conversations within specific groups rather than simply sending emails to individuals. Groups can include OneNote notebooks, group calendars, and third-party integrations like Salesforce and Trello. These integrations allow for conversations about work directly within the group, enhancing collaboration and efficiency.

Full Fidelity of Documents across Endpoints:
Microsoft’s focus extends to ensuring the full fidelity of document artifacts like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint on all platforms, including iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Users can reflow text, edit documents, and experience the richness of Word documents on their phones.

Unique Windows 10 Phone Capability:
Windows 10 phones offer a unique capability where users can connect them to a Bluetooth mouse, keyboard, and screen, essentially turning the phone into a PC-like experience. This versatility makes the Windows phone a compelling computing device for emerging market scenarios or situations where users have limited access to other computing devices.

One Seamless Experience Across Devices:
Satya Nadella showcases the seamless user experience across multiple devices, transitioning between a phone and Surface Pro 3. Full Word, Excel capabilities, start menu, and keyboard shortcuts remain consistent, demonstrating the continuum feature.

Outlook 2016 and Group Conversations:
Outlook 2016 offers a clutter-free inbox using machine learning and integrates group conversations. Same groups accessible across devices, enhancing mobility. Third-party applications seamlessly integrated within Outlook.

Delve Analytics for Time Tracking and Productivity:
Delve Analytics introduced as a new information discovery tool to track time usage. Tracks meetings, customer interactions, and provides comparisons with team and overall benchmarks. Aims to improve productivity by identifying areas for effective time management and customer engagement.

Information Discovery and Breaking Silo Mentality:
Delve promotes information discovery, encouraging knowledge spread beyond organizational silos. Features a Facebook-like news feed showcasing work in progress and allowing visualization of work activities. Users can monitor specific individuals, such as Peggy, and their work progress, like the Northwind proposal.

Real-Time Collaboration with Word 2016 and Skype:
Word 2016 now offers real-time co-editing, allowing multiple users to work on documents simultaneously. Integration with Skype for presence information and quick communication.

Simplify File Sharing with OneDrive:
Automatically saves co-edited documents to OneDrive and shares a link instead of an attachment. Reduces attachment-related issues and pain points within the organization.

Data and Intuition in Business:
Rent the Runway, a fashion logistics technology company, relies heavily on data for decision-making. They use Microsoft Excel as their “Bible” to track inventory and make purchasing decisions based on data analysis.

Data as the Defining Technology Shift:
Satya Nadella emphasizes the significance of data in shaping the current technological era, characterized by transforming businesses and work patterns. The abundance of data from various sources, including devices, applications, and the Internet of Things, presents both challenges and opportunities.

Leading Indicators of Success:
Nadella highlights the importance of identifying leading indicators of success rather than relying solely on lagging indicators like revenue and profit. Usage metrics, such as daily and monthly active users, are key indicators for measuring the success of a product or service.

Culture of Data-Driven Decision-Making:
Microsoft’s leadership team promotes a culture of data-driven decision-making, using metrics to evaluate success and guide product development. Metrics that can be monotonically improved are considered especially valuable in this context.

Microsoft’s Cloud Business:
Microsoft’s cloud business, including Office 365 and Azure, is growing rapidly and expected to reach $20 billion in revenue by 2018. The shift to the cloud changes the value proposition for customers, offering new features and capabilities that enhance productivity and efficiency.

Scalability and Accessibility:
Nadella emphasizes the scalability and accessibility of cloud services, enabling small businesses to easily adopt and benefit from enterprise-grade solutions. The cloud allows companies to access a wide range of services without the need for extensive infrastructure or upfront investments.

Introduction of Windows Hello:
Satya Nadella showcases Windows Hello, a password replacement that uses facial recognition for secure login. The successful experiment in Australia demonstrates its accuracy, even in the case of identical twins.

Importance of Recognizing Small Patterns in Big Data:
In a world of big data, the ability to identify small patterns becomes crucial for organizations and individuals. These patterns help drive actionable insights from the vast sea of data.

Integrating Machine Learning into Applications:
Nadella emphasizes the importance of infusing machine learning into every application, not just SaaS solutions but also custom-built applications. Machine learning harnesses the power of data and enables organizations to leverage its full potential.

Power BI Dashboarding Tool:
Power BI is a dashboarding tool that allows users to create visualizations and perform data analysis. It enables easy access to data from various sources, including third-party SaaS applications and local data sources. The tool’s strength lies in its ability to facilitate pattern recognition through natural language questions and interactive visualizations.

Natural Language Query Processing:
Nadella demonstrates how Power BI can process natural language queries in real-time, selecting relevant data and visualizations. This feature streamlines data analysis and provides insights from various data streams and sources.

Third-Party App Integration:
Alpine Metrics, a Salesforce add-on, is showcased as an example of a third-party app that leverages data science. Alpine Metrics uses data from 50 different signals to provide sales forecasting and identify potential issues.

Cortana Analytics Integration:
Cortana Analytics, a core part of Azure, is used by Alpine Metrics for data analysis and forecasting. Nadella highlights the integration between Cortana and Power BI, enabling voice commands for data analysis.

Conclusion:
The presentation emphasizes the importance of data, pattern recognition, and machine learning in modern business. Power BI and Alpine Metrics are examples of tools that empower organizations to harness the power of data for decision-making and improved performance.

Cortana Analytics for Sales and Healthcare:
Cortana Analytics offers intelligent applications that enhance business processes, such as identifying at-risk sales opportunities and suggesting the best salesperson for a deal, by leveraging machine learning algorithms. The technology underpins Imagine Care, a cloud-based solution developed by Dartmouth-Hitchcock, which enables personalized healthcare, remote patient monitoring, and real-time interventions to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.

Personal Computing Revolution with Windows 10:
Satya Nadella emphasizes the shift from personal computers to personal computing, where devices like PCs, laptops, smartphones, sensors, and various screens seamlessly integrate to provide a mobile and natural user experience. Windows 10 represents a new generation of Windows, designed for this personal computing revolution, offering mobility of experience, natural interactions, including speech, text, vision, and touch, and enhanced security features.

Strategic Implications for Relationships with Partners and Developers:
The evolution of personal computing requires Microsoft to strengthen its partnerships and developer relationships. Third-party developers value reaching a broad user base, which Windows 10 offers across various platforms, including Xbox, holographic, phone, tablet, and Internet of Things. Code reuse and maximizing investment returns are important considerations for developers. For IT, control and security are paramount, including patching and updates to address complex attack vectors.

Conclusion:
Satya Nadella’s presentation highlights the transformative potential of Cortana Analytics in driving business efficiency and healthcare innovation. He envisions a personal computing revolution with Windows 10 that empowers users with intuitive and secure experiences across a range of devices. To achieve this, Microsoft aims to build strong partnerships and create developer-friendly platforms.

Introduction:
CEO Satya Nadella shares insights on the progress and potential of Microsoft HoloLens, a groundbreaking mixed reality device.

HoloLens: A New Computing Paradigm:
Nadella highlights HoloLens as a revolutionary computing device that transcends traditional input-output paradigms. HoloLens enables digital content to blend seamlessly with the real world, creating a mixed reality experience.

Applications and Development:
The device is poised to impact architecture, industrial design, healthcare, and many other industries. Microsoft is collaborating with partners to explore and develop innovative uses for HoloLens.

Video Showcase:
A video showcases various scenarios where HoloLens enhances work, collaboration, education, and entertainment. The video highlights the potential to visualize, share, learn, and create in immersive and engaging ways.

Timeline and Target Developers:
Nadella confirms that a developer kit for HoloLens will be available by next year. The device will undergo a five-year journey of development, feedback, and iteration. Microsoft aims to attract developers across various industries, including gaming, to create experiences for this new medium.

Gaming Experiences:
HoloLens gaming will redefine immersive experiences, distinct from PC, mobile, Xbox, and virtual reality gaming. Partnerships with Oculus, Steam, and others will bring virtual reality goggles to Windows 10 machines, paired with Xbox controllers.

Enterprise Applications:
Mixed reality is particularly suited for enterprise applications, due to its ability to integrate digital information with real-world settings. Enterprise scenarios include architecture, industrial design, healthcare, and many more.

Industrial Design and Use Cases for HoloLens:
HoloLens is gaining traction in industrial design and architecture due to its ability to visualize and interact with 3D models in real time.

Communication and Customer Service Use Cases:
Skype on HoloLens offers new possibilities for communication and customer service, enabling immersive experiences and remote collaboration.

Challenges in Partnerships:
Satya Nadella emphasizes the importance of partnerships in a multi-platform world, recognizing that customers use a variety of applications and platforms. He believes that platform vendors should partner broadly to solve real pain points for customers.

Focus on Culture and Empowerment:
Nadella views his role as CEO as primarily about curating the company’s culture, ensuring that everyone at Microsoft can do their best work.

Education and Computer Science:
Nadella highlights the significance of education, especially computer science education, in empowering individuals and societies. He announces Microsoft’s commitment of $75 million over three years to bring computer science education to all communities.

TEALS Program:
The TEALS (Technical Education and Learning Services) program addresses the challenge of finding teachers for computer science education. It connects volunteers with computer science skills from the industry to teach in schools, reaching over 130 schools and 6,000 students. The goal is to scale the program fivefold, reaching 30,000 students in the next three years.