Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks TikTok, Windows Phone, and Discord

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke at Vox Media'south Code Conference terminal nighttime. The CEO discussed "re-founding" Microsoft, Windows Telephone, and Microsoft's previous interest in acquiring Discord (sort of). Nadella also recounted the saga of Microsoft'southward potential purchase of TikTok, which he referred to as the "strangest matter [he'due south] ever worked on."

Speaking of his before days at Microsoft, Nadella said that "Microsoft was doing a lot of things out of envy, not ... things that nosotros were meant to practise." He was likely referring to Windows Phone, according to The Verge'south Dieter Bohn. Nadella suggested that Microsoft was envious of closed platforms but needed to "get back to what Windows is fantastic at, at being an open platform."

Kara Swisher hosted the event and tried to get Nadella to open about Microsoft's pursuit of Discord. Nadella joked, "What is Discord?" Microsoft hasn't publicly confirmed that it was interested in Discord, so information technology'southward not surprising to meet Nadella rebuff any discussions virtually it.

Nadella:

"TikTok came to united states, we didn't come to TikTok ... But I was kind of intrigued by it. And and so I gauge the rest is history."

And much laughter.

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Nadella did, all the same, dive into the strange saga of Microsoft almost acquiring TikTok. "Information technology was the strangest thing. First of all, TikTok came to united states, we didn't go to TikTok," said the CEO.

"President Trump had a item point of view of what he was trying to get done in that location and so it just dropped off. I mean it was interesting. There was a period of time when I felt the USG had some particular set of requirements and then information technology merely disappeared."

Microsoft's CEO mentioned that TikTok uses artificial intelligence and is based in the cloud. Microsoft likewise invests heavily in these areas, then the social media giant could have potentially been a good fit with Microsoft. Nadella said that TikTok was an "interesting product."

The legal saga surrounding TikTok'southward potential sale involved the app existence banned in the U.Due south. and Microsoft'south CEO calling President Donald Trump directly. Microsoft president Brad Smith details the situation in his book Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Historic period.

Ultimately, Microsoft did not acquire TikTok. Microsoft appears to have moved on from any want to acquire the social media platform. "At this signal, I'yard happy with what I have," said Nadella.

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