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this is the new face of Microsoft sporting a hoodie and hipster glasses but Satya Nadella is far from a new face around the office after 22 years at the washington-based company nadella is being promoted from the head of the cloud and enterprise group to chief executive officer he really is an accomplished technologist and he knows the corporate culture and he's going to be able to mold all of that together as he finally figures out where Microsoft needs to move nadella will inherit a company trying to figure out its place in a post-pc world while Microsoft continues to profit from windows and office software the company has struggled to compete in mobile windows phones have a small fraction of the market compared to apple and android and for us and what's going to define Microsoft going forward is a mobile-first cloud-first what Microsoft founder Bill Gates will take on a different role at the company as a technology advisor I'll have over third of my time available to meet with product groups and it'll be fun to define this this next round of products working together and that list of products may change as nadella takes over he's under pressure now from outsiders to carve up the company to get rid of the consumer businesses primarily Bing and the Xbox business Steve Ballmer steps down Tuesday nadella's role as CEO is effective immediately in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News