Nope, he was from a non-IT background, and with little understanding of technology.
IIRC he is more of an accountant type = disaster for anything technical (in most cases).
MSoft has always gone to length to support their past OS's and legacy devices and still held a major share of the PC market - In his introductory speech this guy was about to drop this lot for the mobile market, a market where MSoft was battling. What was this idiot thinking ??