Brilliantly navigated ‘the End of Windows’

The Guardian Viewpoint on how Microsoft re invented intself:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/12/how-microsoft-was-resurrected-as-the-third-most-valuable-tech-company-1-trillion-dollars

Inlcuding: ” Satya brilliantly navigated ‘the End of Windows’. 

Conversation 7 comments

  • skane2600

    13 May, 2019 - 11:28 am

    <p>Nadella “brilliantly navigated ‘the End of Windows’ internally, freeing Microsoft employees to build products that customers actually wanted, not that Microsoft needed”</p><p><br></p><p>So MS's post-Windows 7 work is what "customers actually wanted"? The elimination of the Start Menu, UWP, Windows S, Windows on ARM. I guess somebody forgot to send the memo to customers that they were supposed to want this stuff.</p>

    • hrlngrv

      Premium Member
      13 May, 2019 - 3:36 pm

      <p><a href="https://www.thurrott.com/forums/microsoft/microsoft/thread/brilliantly-navigated-the-end-of-windows#427785&quot; target="_blank"><em>In reply to skane2600:</em></a></p><p>Some customers may indeed have wanted Windows on ARM. The others intended restrictions, Windows on ARM could only have been expansive.</p><p>Anyway, the <em>customers wanted, not that MSFT needed</em> may accurately sum up Windows Server -&gt; Azure. MSFT's B2B future is not going to be based on capitalizing on Windows.</p>

      • curtisspendlove

        13 May, 2019 - 3:58 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#427912">In reply to hrlngrv:</a></em></blockquote><p>Agreed. I don’t think you can assume anymore when Microsoft says “customers” that they mean “consumers”. </p>

        • skane2600

          13 May, 2019 - 4:14 pm

          <blockquote><em><a href="#427920">In reply to curtisspendlove:</a></em></blockquote><p>Did anyone ever really assume that? Post-Windows 7 versions were even less popular with enterprises than they were with consumers.</p>

      • skane2600

        13 May, 2019 - 4:21 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#427912">In reply to hrlngrv:</a></em></blockquote><p>Windows server was first released when Bill Gates was still CEO. Azure was released when Ballmer was CEO. I think it's quite clear that the cloud has been important to MS for a long time. And which of those technologies could be accurately described as something MS didn't need?</p>

        • hrlngrv

          Premium Member
          13 May, 2019 - 7:28 pm

          <p><a href="https://www.thurrott.com/forums/microsoft/microsoft/thread/brilliantly-navigated-the-end-of-windows#427925&quot; target="_blank"><em>In reply to skane2600:</em></a></p><p>You do love rhetorical extrapolation.</p><p>Where did I say anything about what MSFT needs?</p><p>Also, logically, saying MSFT's B2B future not based on Windows doesn't mean Windows serves no purpose for MSFT. Finally, MSFT's cloud products are growing, Windows isn't.</p>

          • skane2600

            13 May, 2019 - 9:42 pm

            <blockquote><em><a href="#427970">In reply to hrlngrv:</a></em></blockquote><p>There seems to be a problem today with people forgetting what they typed:</p><p><br></p><p>"Anyway, the customers wanted, not that <em>MSFT</em> <em>needed</em>&nbsp;" Italics added.</p><p><br></p>

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