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posted by janrinok on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the start-of-the-end dept.

From the NY Times: "The Windows era at Microsoft, long in eclipse, is officially history. Microsoft said on Tuesday that it was splitting up its Windows engineering team and that the leader of its Windows business was leaving."

Microsoft is ready for a world beyond Windows

"We want to move from people needing Windows to choosing Windows, to loving Windows. That is our bold goal," said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella three years ago. At the time, Microsoft was unveiling more details about Windows 10, and surprising people with technologies like the HoloLens headset. It was an exciting time of opportunity and optimism that had Microsoft betting on people loving Windows so much that Windows 10 would be running on 1 billion devices within three years. Neither wager worked out — which is fine, because Windows as we know it is no longer critical to Microsoft's future success.

Microsoft announced a new reorganization yesterday. It's the fourth major shuffle inside the company over the past five years, and the most significant of Nadella's tenure. Microsoft is splitting Windows across the company, into different parts. Terry Myerson, a 21-year Microsoft veteran, is leaving the company and his role as Windows chief. The core development of Windows is being moved to a cloud and AI team, and a new team will take over the "experiences" Windows 10 users see like apps, the Start menu, and new features. There's a lot of shuffling going on, but Nadella's 1,300 word memo leaves little doubt over the company's true future: cloud and AI.


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:44AM (8 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:44AM (#660691) Homepage

    I disagree. Microsoft went to the cloud and with spectacular results. Hold on, I have to take a piss. Uh, I took a fat piss, and that was awesome, but MS saw what was coming and they did a good job with their Office360.

    They made a very smart move with their cross-platform jump. It sucks when you're on-platform because of all the bugs but they saw what was coming and handled it nicely. Great move, Microsoft.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:55AM (6 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 31 2018, @02:55AM (#660695) Journal

    You do make a point. After all, idiot CEO's are dedicing to move to Office365. My computer at work was pushed to update last night. Derp-a-derp - all our shits is in da CLOUD! What could possibly go wrong? Christ, I want to puke.

    Do you think NSA, FBI, and the other alphabets are moving to Office365?

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:05AM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:05AM (#660698) Journal

      https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new-aws-secret-region/ [amazon.com]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_365 [wikipedia.org]

      Some plans for Office 365 also include access to the current versions of the Office desktop applications for both Windows (Office 2016) and OS X (Office for Mac 2016) for the period of the subscription.

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    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:15AM (2 children)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:15AM (#660701) Homepage

      I'm not talking about 3-letter agencies, I'm talking about everybody else who has to use Microsoft crap. And for everybody else, MS handles it nicely albeit with stupid bugs. The Office360 has plenty of bugs but that's kinda the point: MS is going full-retard into cross-platform.

      Whether or not you like it MS is here to stay. And it's got a lot of nice features that others don't.

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by tftp on Saturday March 31 2018, @04:13AM

        by tftp (806) on Saturday March 31 2018, @04:13AM (#660717) Homepage
        I don't believe that MS will be able to stay on for long. At this point MS is primarily an office automation company. Everyone else (consumers) are carrying their computers in pockets and can link them up with a big screen to watch movies. Home desktop is dead. Even a writer will use a laptop. There he has google docs that offer better functions over the office (sync between devices.) So the only remaining use of MS is in business space. But their MS Servers, expensive and profitable, are replaced with outsourced cloud services (linux in case of google.) Office 365 and windows on business desktops are the only remaining profit centers. One more push from Google to produce better functional equivalents of the Office, and MS is no more, relegated to running specialty CADs on engineering desktops (0.1% of the current penetration.) As MS Windows is fragile and vulnerable (hello, Boeing!), every IT manager will vote for a thin client (a Chromebook) and all data in the cloud, with an async backup on a local backup device.
      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @08:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @08:44AM (#660775)

        And it's got a lot of nice features that others don't.

        No, it does not, you fuching jew-boy Microsoft shill! We know who you are! We know what you do! We know you get paid! Now, bugger off, you low-life mercenary bastard.

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:25AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @03:25AM (#660703)

      > Do you think NSA, FBI, and the other alphabets are moving to Office365?

      Do you mean as an office suite, or as a surveillance platform?

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:16AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:16AM (#660744) Journal

        Do you mean as an office suite, or as a surveillance platform?

        As a surveillance platform of course.
        For the office suite, the Google Apps are better priced; besides, they need to stay in good relations with Google, won't happen if they take everything from MS.

        (grin)

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:12AM (#660743)

    MS saw what was coming and they did a good job with their Office360.

    I can't use that one for 5 days every year (6 during leap years). Not recommended.