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    2014 - 2020: Windows 10, Microsoft Edge, Hololens: Steve Ballmer Ceo Satya Nadella John W. Thompson

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    Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft in 2014. Major events from 2014-2020 included the release of Windows 10 in 2015, the Microsoft Edge browser, and HoloLens augmented reality headset. Microsoft also acquired Mojang, the maker of Minecraft, and Nokia's mobile phone business during this period, though its share of the smartphone market remained low. The company shifted its focus to cloud computing and services through initiatives like Microsoft Azure.

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    Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft in 2014. Major events from 2014-2020 included the release of Windows 10 in 2015, the Microsoft Edge browser, and HoloLens augmented reality headset. Microsoft also acquired Mojang, the maker of Minecraft, and Nokia's mobile phone business during this period, though its share of the smartphone market remained low. The company shifted its focus to cloud computing and services through initiatives like Microsoft Azure.

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    Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft in 2014. Major events from 2014-2020 included the release of Windows 10 in 2015, the Microsoft Edge browser, and HoloLens augmented reality headset. Microsoft also acquired Mojang, the maker of Minecraft, and Nokia's mobile phone business during this period, though its share of the smartphone market remained low. The company shifted its focus to cloud computing and services through initiatives like Microsoft Azure.

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    2014–2020: Windows 10, Microsoft Edge, HoloLens

    Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer as the CEO of Microsoft in February 2014

    On February 4, 2014, Steve Ballmer stepped down as CEO of Microsoft and was succeeded
    by Satya Nadella, who previously led Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise division.[97] On the same
    day, John W. Thompson took on the role of chairman, in place of Bill Gates, who continued to
    participate as a technology advisor.[98] Thompson became the second chairman in Microsoft's
    history.[99] On April 25, 2014, Microsoft acquired Nokia Devices and Services for
    $7.2 billion.[100] This new subsidiary was renamed Microsoft Mobile Oy.[101] On September 15,
    2014, Microsoft acquired the video game development company Mojang, best known
    for Minecraft, for $2.5 billion.[102] On June 8, 2017, Microsoft acquired Hexadite, an Israeli security
    firm, for $100 million.[103][104]
    On January 21, 2015, Microsoft announced the release of their first Interactive
    whiteboard, Microsoft Surface Hub.[105] On July 29, 2015, Windows 10 was released,[106] with its
    server sibling, Windows Server 2016, released in September 2016. In Q1 2015, Microsoft was
    the third largest maker of mobile phones, selling 33 million units (7.2% of all). While a large
    majority (at least 75%) of them do not run any version of Windows Phone— those other phones
    are not categorized as smartphones by Gartner – in the same time frame 8 million Windows
    smartphones (2.5% of all smartphones) were made by all manufacturers (but mostly by
    Microsoft).[107] Microsoft's share of the U.S. smartphone market in January 2016 was
    2.7%.[108] During the summer of 2015 the company lost $7.6 billion related to its mobile-phone
    business, firing 7,800 employees.[109]
    On March 1, 2016, Microsoft announced the merger of its PC and Xbox divisions, with Phil
    Spencer announcing that Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps would be the focus for
    Microsoft's gaming in the future.[110] On January 24, 2017, Microsoft showcased Intune for
    Education at the BETT 2017 education technology conference in London.[111] Intune for Education
    is a new cloud-based application and device management service for the education sector.[112] In
    May 2016, the company announced it was laying off 1,850 workers, and taking an impairment
    and restructuring charge of $950 million.[109] In June 2016, Microsoft announced a project named
    Microsoft Azure Information Protection. It aims to help enterprises protect their data as it moves
    between servers and devices.[113] In November 2016, Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation as a
    Platinum member during Microsoft's Connect(); developer event in New York.[114] The cost of
    each Platinum membership is US$500,000 per year.[115] Some analysts deemed this unthinkable
    ten years prior, however, as in 2001 then-CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux "cancer".[116] Microsoft
    planned to launch a preview of Intune for Education "in the coming weeks", with general
    availability scheduled for spring 2017, priced at $30 per device, or through volume licensing
    agreements.[117]
    The Nokia Lumia 1320, the Microsoft Lumia 535 and the Nokia Lumia 530, which all run on one of the now-
    discontinued Windows Phone operating systems

    In January 2018, Microsoft patched Windows 10 to account for CPU problems related to Intel's
    Meltdown security breach. The patch led to issues with the Microsoft Azure virtual machines
    reliant on Intel's CPU architecture. On January 12, Microsoft released PowerShell Core 6.0 for
    the macOS and Linux operating systems.[118] In February 2018, Microsoft killed notification
    support for their Windows Ph

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