Vole says that Satya Nadella "has transformed Microsoft since taking over from Ballmer.

Instead of closing the company off from its rivals, Nadella has been open to working with companies that are also competitors – even the fruity cargo-cult Apple."

However, Nadella told a court that Vole while being a friend to all "remains at odds" with Google's parent company Alphabet.

Testifying in the antitrust lawsuit against the company, Nadella believes that Alphabet sells a false narrative that OEM partners have a choice when, in reality, they don't.

"Google has carrots, and it has massive sticks...' We'll remove Google Play if you don't have us as the primary browser.' And without Google Play, an Android phone is a brick. And so that is the type of stuff that is impossible to overcome. No OEM is going to do that," he said.

Nadella commented about the US government's antitrust case against Microsoft in 1998:

"Google exists because of two things. One is because of our consent decree, where we had to limit what we could distribute and not distribute by default. And second, because you could distribute anything you wanted on Windows, and it's still the case, right, it's not just Google.”

Nadella said that the largest marketplace on Windows happens to be not from Microsoft, it's Steam. And so it's an open platform on which anybody can distribute anything.