Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set out the company's agenda in an internal memo containing the directive for the employees of Microsoft.

Microsoft employees, going forward, should "empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more."

The new Microsoft mission statement was sent as a company-wide email to employees and sets the stage for the future of the company as it prepares to launch Windows 10.

The mission statement serves as a good summary of the vision of Nadella for Microsoft. In addition, it is much clearer compared to the verbose mission statement issued by his predecessor, Steve Ballmer, and the "information at your fingertips" mantra of Bill Gates.

The memo, which was acquired independently by technology news website Geekwire, stands as a "State of the Union" message for Microsoft employees, with the direction and tone for the upcoming year set by its contents. The message supports most of the changes that Nadella had already started, such as the shift in focus to cloud services and mobile devices.

Nadella also said to Microsoft employees that the company will be investing in three ambitions that are both bold and interconnected. The ambitions are reinventing productivity and business processes, building the intelligent cloud platform and creating more personal computing.

The memo also confirms the evolution of the culture of Microsoft as the company looks to become one that is more responsive and nimble to the ever-changing landscape of the industry that it is in.

Nadella wrote his belief that culture is not a static idea, as it evolves daily depending on the behaviors of all the employees of an organization. He added that Microsoft is in a good position to seize additional growth over the year.

"We need to innovate in new areas, execute against our plans, make some tough choices in areas where things are not working and solve hard problems in ways that drive customer value," Nadella said.

The release of Nadella's memo to Microsoft employees follows news from last week that four top executives of Microsoft will be leaving the company as part of a wide overhaul of Microsoft's management team that will combine the Windows and Devices teams. This is the biggest shakeup in the personnel of the company since Nadella announced that 18,000 employees would be laid off last year.

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