????在微軟工作多年，布拉德·史密斯閱歷非常豐富。

????史密斯1993年加入微軟，此前是Covington & Burling律師事務(wù)所合伙人。1993年的微軟還在開發(fā)一個代號“芝加哥”的項目，后來成為家喻戶曉的Windows 95。

????那段時間微軟蒸蒸日上，競爭力極強。史密斯也在工作中大展身手。比爾·蓋茨領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下的微軟很快就深陷與美國司法部之間的反壟斷官司中。美國司法部針對的是微軟如何壟斷了PC操作系統(tǒng)領(lǐng)域，市場份額超過80%。幾年后，微軟又惹上了類似的官司，這次受指責(zé)的是該公司將IE瀏覽器和Windows捆綁銷售的行為。千禧年之際，史蒂夫·鮑爾默接替蓋茨擔任CEO，當時的微軟官司纏身。到2005年，鮑爾默成功解決了大部分官司。

????史密斯2002年出任微軟法律總顧問。在這些訴訟談判里，他一直緊密協(xié)助鮑爾默。此前他做了三年的歐洲法律和公司事務(wù)負責(zé)人，后在副總法律顧問的位置上干了五年。任職期間，史密斯在競爭法規(guī)和知識產(chǎn)權(quán)問題等方面贏得多項重要判決，進而改變了科技行業(yè)的發(fā)展軌跡；他決定收購的知識產(chǎn)權(quán)仍在給微軟帶來收益，他發(fā)起的打擊軟件盜版并解決其他網(wǎng)絡(luò)安全問題的行動仍在繼續(xù)。他的最新工作是為“云”，也就是為云計算（即把個人或公司數(shù)據(jù)存儲在微軟管理的分布式服務(wù)器上）奠定法律基礎(chǔ)。

????2007年，《財富》雜志高級編輯羅杰·帕洛夫把史密斯描述為“文雅、周到而且可靠的律師，有人說他代表了后壟斷時代微軟更友善、更溫和的形象。” 在華盛頓州雷德蒙德市微軟總部，帕洛夫和史密斯進行了面對面交流。帕洛夫隨后寫道，從史密斯身上可以看到“專注、堅定、不經(jīng)意間流露出一絲常春藤盟校的傲慢和野心”（全文請參見《財富》雜志2007年5月28日刊登的文章《Microsoft Takes On The Free World》）。

????上周五，微軟CEO薩蒂亞·納德拉將史密斯提拔為微軟總裁，這是2002年以來首次有人出任這個職務(wù)，微軟上一任總裁還是理查德·“里克”· 貝魯佐。除了負責(zé)處理日常法律事務(wù)，史密斯還成為首席法務(wù)官。納德拉在宣布此項人事調(diào)整的公告中寫道，史密斯將負責(zé)“隱私、安全、便利性、環(huán)境可持續(xù)性以及數(shù)字融合等，同時領(lǐng)導(dǎo)跨55個國家和地區(qū)的商業(yè)、法律以及公司事務(wù)專業(yè)團隊。這些團隊在微軟的工作包括法律事務(wù)、知識產(chǎn)權(quán)、專利授權(quán)、政府事務(wù)、公共政策以及企業(yè)公民和社會責(zé)任?！?/p>

????史密斯仍將向納德拉匯報。

????納德拉對微軟高管層進行了一系列重大調(diào)整，史密斯的升遷只是最新一例。今夏早些時候，資深科技圈人士、諾基亞前CEO史蒂芬?艾洛普、商業(yè)應(yīng)用業(yè)務(wù)負責(zé)人基里爾·塔塔里諾夫、長期在高層任職的埃里克·魯?shù)聽栆约罢位顒蛹荫R克·佩恩都離開了微軟。同時，隨著納德拉大舉推進他在今年6月份提出的規(guī)劃，特里·梅森和斯科特·格思里都已分別履新。（財富中文網(wǎng)）

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????In his many years at Microsoft, Brad Smith has seen a lot.

????A former partner at Covington & Burling, Smith joined the company MSFT -1.01% in 1993, back when it was still working on a project code-named “Chicago” that would eventually become a household name: Windows 95.

????In those years, Microsoft was ascendant and highly competitive. Smith had his work cut out for him. Microsoft, led by Bill Gates, would soon find itself mired in an antitrust lawsuit with the U.S. Justice Department focused on how Microsoft attained dominance—at the time, more than 80% market share for PCs—in operating system software. A few years later, Microsoft was back in court for similar claims, this time pertaining to its bundling of its Internet Explorer web browser with Windows. By the time Steve Ballmer was named CEO, replacing Gates at the turn of the millennium, the company found itself fighting multiple legal battles. Ballmer managed to settle most of them by 2005.

????Smith, who was named the company’s general counsel in 2002, was right there alongside Ballmer, overseeing the negotiations. He spent three years leading its Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) team in Europe and five years as deputy general counsel. His tenure at Microsoft is marked by major competition law and intellectual property decisions that have shifted the trajectory of the technology industry, intellectual property acquisitions that still pay dividends for the company, and battles over software piracy and other cybersecurity concerns that continue unabated. His latest project? Establish the legal foundations for “the cloud,” a.k.a. cloud computing, in which a person or company’s data is stored in a distributed manner on Microsoft-operated servers.

????In 2007, Fortune’s own Roger Parloff wrote that Smith was “a polished, thoughtful, and credible advocate whom some have described as the face of the kinder, gentler, post-monopoly Microsoft.” In a face-to-face interview at the company’s Redmond, Wash. headquarters, Smith projected “intensity, determination, a hint of Ivy League hauteur, and ambition,” Parloff wrote. (Read the rest in “Microsoft Takes On The Free World” from the May 28, 2007 issue of Fortune magazine.)

????On Friday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promoted Smith to president of Microsoft, a role that hasn’t existed since 2002, when Richard “Rick” Belluzzo occupied it. In addition to his usual legal duties—he’s now also chief legal officer—Smith will be responsible for “privacy, security, accessibility, environmental sustainability and digital inclusion,” Nadella wrote in the announcement of the change. “He also leads a team of business, legal, and corporate affairs professionals spanning 55 countries. These teams are responsible for the company’s legal work, its intellectual property portfolio, patent licensing business, and the company’s government affairs, public policy, corporate citizenship and social responsibility work.”

????He will continue to report to Nadella.

????Smith’s promotion is only the latest in a series of major moves by Microsoft’s CEO to overhaul its senior management team. Earlier this summer, Microsoft bid adieu to veteran and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, business applications chief Kirill Tatarinov, longtime executive Eric Rudder, and politico Mark Penn. Meanwhile Terry Myerson and Scott Guthrie took on new responsibilities as Nadella made strides toward an agenda he outlined in June.