Microsoft should sell Office and Windows to boost cloud business, former executive says
Former Microsoft executive Satya Nadella has been given some advice: split off Windows and Office and focus on Azure, the company's cloud computing crown jewel. In an interview with CNBC, Ben Slivka, a 14-year Microsoft veteran who departed in 1999, gave Nadella unsolicited advice, saying, "The appropriate thing probably is to invest the future on the cloud."