The spread of the new crown epidemic globally has brought huge impacts to areas such as technology, consumer electronics, and IT. According to the latest foreign media news, Microsoft CEO Setia Nadella said on Tuesday that as the Asian crown virus epidemic eases, the hardware supply chain is returning to normal, but he said that the biggest question is whether the US and European demand is Will last.
According to foreign media reports, when asked if Microsoft could deliver some of its products promised before the new crown virus outbreak later this year, Nadella told the media: "On the supply side, we are back on track. . "
Since succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014, Microsoft's third chief executive, Nadella, has reinvented the company as a cloud computing service and infrastructure provider and no longer focuses on Windows and the office Software and other personal computer software.
However, the company was still hit financially by the outbreak: Last month, the company said that its business unit that includes Windows systems would not be able to meet its revenue outlook for the quarter. Several other companies followed suit, canceling their first quarter outlook.
Nadella said, however, that the company has survived in general.
"Our balance sheet is very good. We are a very diversified company. We have a combination of annual fee services (more stable) and non-annual fee businesses, which is even stronger than when we were in a financial crisis last time." He says. "Frankly, I believe we will survive it."
He said the company's cloud computing infrastructure and services have been supported by growing demand.
"If we still have a previous-generation data center architecture or software architecture, I don't think we can deal with this crisis as effectively as before," Nadella said.
On March 13, Bill Gates, the former CEO and co-founder of Microsoft, resigned from the board of directors, focusing more on charitable activities. In an email sent to employees on Saturday, Nadella told employees that the situation in the past few weeks was very critical as the new crown virus affected Microsoft's home state of Washington and elsewhere.
Nadella said on Tuesday that he shared an office with his daughters at home and they had been helping him set up a desk. Before, he said, "I used to work in bed."
Microsoft instructed its employees to work from home as much as possible earlier than Washington and other states. Nadella says Microsoft employees around the world will follow public health guidelines in each country in which they operate when they return to work.
He said he supports any form of fiscal stimulus by the US government.
"I think the government is doing the right thing, that is, they focus on the most affected employees, the most affected industries, and small businesses," Nadella said. "Because those industries are affected by the house order, practitioners stay at home."
