Why Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared Bill Gates’ frustration in an internal meeting

Microsoft is overhauling its GitHub platform to combat rising competition from AI coding rivals like Cursor and Claude Code, with CEO Satya Nadella invoking Bill Gates’ decades-old frustration about software fragmentation to explain the transformation, according to an internal meeting reviewed by Business Insider.Nadella told employees that Gates “used to always say that there’s only one category: It’s called Information Management,” expressing frustration over why users needed different apps for documents, websites, and software development. AI is finally erasing those boundaries, Nadella said, declaring “there is none” when asked about the difference between apps, documents, and websites in the AI era.