I'm going to put my guess in as either Microsoft wanting aggressive roll outs while he was trying to be more cautious. At some point the board decided his caution was running against their "fiduciary responsibility" (aka demand for ever increasing shareholder value) so he had to go, and they get to say it was his candor.
There is no room for caution when market share might be taken by Amazon, or Apple, or Google, or China, etc.
Or my other guess is they got mad because they felt he didn't put enough pressure on the executive order around AI to build a moat for them.
I'm going to put my guess in as either Microsoft wanting aggressive roll outs while he was trying to be more cautious. At some point the board decided his caution was running against their "fiduciary responsibility" (aka demand for ever increasing shareholder value) so he had to go, and they get to say it was his candor. There is no room for caution when market share might be taken by Amazon, or Apple, or Google, or China, etc.
Or my other guess is they got mad because they felt he didn't put enough pressure on the executive order around AI to build a moat for them.