Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella told the assembled throngs at the firm’s Inspire partner event that trust has to be earned.
“You can’t claim trust, you have to earn it every day” was a comment that drew a loud round of applause from the partner audience. The comments were part of a chat about how partners should work with customers. However it is not much a leap to see that it is connected to Microsoft’s decision to reverse proposed changes around internal use rights policies to protect its relationships with resellers.
Nadella said that trust emerged from taking a consistent approach and it would be making sure it made the right decisions.
“We want to make sure we are fully aligned with success of partner and customers at all times”, he said.
Nadella said that there would be 50 billion connected devices by 2030.
“That’s the explosion of compute and data and that’s what’s leading to us building out Azure as the world’s computer”, he said.
He added that by 2030, 10 percent of total GDP will be tech spend, compared to just five percent currently and the opportunities did not stop there.
“The real opportunity is that other 90 percent of GDP that’s all going to be digitally driven and software driven.”
