Satya Nadella's appointment as the new CEO of Microsoft, coupled with the news that Bill Gates would step down as chairman of the board of Microsoft, sent the tech industry and notable corporate leaders abuzz.
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Many, like Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior, were congratulatory.
Congrats to my friend @satyanadella !— Padmasree (@Padmasree) February 4, 2014
Noted investor Chris Sacca added his congrats.
@satyanadella Congrats, Satya. It was fun working the Twitter deal with you in '09. Here's to ramping up your Tweets again soon.— Chris Sacca (@sacca) February 4, 2014
Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, approved of the move.
Love the Microsoft CEO decision ..someone who knows the business and has watched the moves for years has best chance to WIN— Jack Welch (@jack_welch) February 4, 2014
Sravish Sridhar, CEO of Kinvey, said he's looking forward to the future.
Many congratulations @satyanadella. I can't wait to see how you take $MSFT to the next level— Sravish Sridhar (@sravish) February 4, 2014
Some used the chance to poke some fun at Microsoft, like Howard Lindzon, cofounder of Stocktwits.
New Microsoft CEO email to company gets hung up in spam filters http://t.co/f5MPmfFgtD (I kid) $msft— howardlindzon (@howardlindzon) February 4, 2014
As did Inside.com founder and CEO Jason Calacanis, who noted Nadella's tech-cool garb.
finally a @Microsoft CEO that wears a hoodie http://t.co/sEvKzpegM3— jason (@Jason) February 4, 2014
Robert Stephens, the former CTO of Best Buy, expressed some skepticism about the way Microsoft reported the move by Gates.
Yeah, right. Bill Gates is just going to "advise".— Robert Stephens (@rstephens) February 4, 2014
However, Box CEO and cofounder Aaron Levie had perhaps the most ominous tweet of the day.
Microsoft has one final shot to reboot the empire. This is going to be a very interesting decade.— Aaron Levie (@levie) February 4, 2014
This post was updated at 6:27 p.m. EST on February 7, 2014 to reflect that Aaron Levie is the CEO of Box. The article originally stated that Levie was the CEO of Dropbox.