title: Microsoft Rebooted: How Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Reinvented Their Company
author:  Robert Slater 
description: Robert Slater is the author of more than twenty books, among them the recently released <i>The Wal-Mart Decade</i> and the national bestsellers <i>Jack Welch and the GE Way</i> and <i>Get Better or Get Beaten</i>. He was a reporter with Time magazine for two decades.
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  The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for
  Everyone
  
  
  Satya Nadella
  
  
  with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols
  
  
  
  
  
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  ![A black-and-white photo shows Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Steve
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  On the morning of February 4, 2014, I was introduced to employees as
  Microsoft’s third CEO alongside Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, the only CEOs in
  Microsoft’s forty-year history.
  
  
  
  
  
  The three men at their Microsoft office. They ar