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’.
skane2600
<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>
skane2600
<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
<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>
skane2600
<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> " Italics added.</p><p><br></p>