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Over the past 4 years that Satya Nadella has been CEO of Microsoft, we have seem some sort of extraordinary transformation. Microsoft has gone from being the poster boy of monopolistic greed to one of the most innovative tech companies around. In order to accomplish this, Nadella has focused on revamping two main parts of Microsoft's business. First, he has made many of the companies products subscription services, such as Office 365, which is an example of SaaS (Software as a Service). Second, he as embraced the shift to the cloud, by focusing his company's resources on building up the Microsoft Azure platform. On top of this, Nadella has made some big acquisitions, acquiring LinkedIn for 26 billion in 2016 and more recently, acquiring code-sharing site GitHub in 2018, further demonstrating his vision of innovation and open-source software. Microsoft reported in its earnings call that its "Commercial Cloud" business, which contains cloud products such as Azure a...

After many months of rumors and leaks, it's official- the Surface Go is here. In an age where laptops are getting smaller and smartphones are getting bigger, tablets seem to be becoming less and less useful. Yes, Microsoft is marketing the Surface Go as a tablet, but it still adheres to the Surface line's iconic slogan "It's a tablet that can replace your laptop." After all, it is powered by a full fledged x86 CPU, the Intel Pentium Gold. This means you can't really compare this tablet to ordinary tablets like the iPad, Kindle Fire, and Samsung Galaxy Tab, which all run on ARM based mobile chipsets. The Surface Go can run PC applications out of the box. So, all that said, what is Microsoft's goal with this tablet? For one, it doesn't compete with a Chromebook. Chromebooks are much less powerful but are also a lot cheaper. Most Chromebooks sell from $200-$300. The Surface Go can't compete with the iPad either. It can run more apps than the iPad...