"Going forward, it's a mobile-first, cloud-first world," said Satya Nadella, the newly appointed CEO of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), last week. Nadella who was just announced as CEO on February 4th has been working for Microsoft since 1992. Inheriting this position now is remarkably different than when Ballmer took over in 2000. At the turn of the century Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) only sold books, the iPod wasn’t even released, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) did not exist, and “Google it” was not a normal phrase. Microsoft has let other companies surpass them over the past decade running away with one business after another. Nadella is taking control of the company when competition is fiercer than ever before. I Know