Stefan Mileschin

After King Steve "there's a kind of hush" Ballmer announced that he will be abdicating to get a bit of peace and quiet there has been much talk about who would take the crown.

While everyone has so far talked about an outsider taking the job, it is more likely that if Vole wants to continue down the path of this devices and services strategy they will have to get an insider to do it for them.

An outsider would want to change that strategy and forge the company in a bold new direction. They would also wanted to end the Game of Thrones between the various parts of the company which has been crippling the company for years.

Reuters has prepared a list of Insiders who could do everything that people in Microsoft would want.

Satya Nadella, who works in the cloud and enterprise department, has served Vole for 21 years. He knows the inner workings of the company, and where all the bodies are buried. Nadella is well placed in the more important areas of servers, data centres and online services and was promoted to run the newly created 'cloud and enterprise' unit. In other words he is the 'services' person behind the devices and services side of Microsoft's new vision.

His problem is that he once worked as a vice president in the Office unit and might not have the ability to bang the heads together of the Windows and Office factions. In Microsoft these two kingdoms hate each other's guts and have been at war for years.

http://news.techeye.net/business/the...ueen-microsoft