Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, at Build 2016.
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella dances around controversies, but doesn’t challenge any head on

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, had a pretty tame keynote on the first day of Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco. He sometimes danced near controversy, emphasizing topics like privacy, but never challenged these issues head on.

There were plenty of issues for Nadella to address. But he was either too polite to tackle them in an in-your-face kind of way, or he just decided to leave the details of conversations to other speakers or the technical sessions that will take place during the rest of the Build conference, which goes on for three days.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.