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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 31 2018, @06:39AM (#660749)

    " I just can't see a lot of innovation from Microsoft. "

    That's because, for the vast majority of what they've done, they haven't innovated at all. They've taken ideas that were already successful and cloned it, then tried to kill off the original. (ie: IE!)

    Unfortunately for them the new markets don't have a heck of a lot to do with the PC directly so they can't really force a win with their industry stranglehold.

    I tend to look at the PC market's slowdown to be a 50/50 split of two main things. 1. hardware advances have slowed down. Even gamers don't need to upgrade nearly as fast as they use to. 2. Microsoft screwing around with Windows to make it anti-consumer as they try to such every bit of data out of people to sell. (Meaning since getting a new computer would mean being forced into the latest OS that they seriously want to avoid, they keep clinging to their old computer until it completely dies on them. Which has the effect of slowing down the industry as well.

    I still don't see PCs dying out any time soon. People can go on about tablets and smartphones replacing them but in most cases that just isn't the case. Often times people are getting a new phone to go along with their PC since they don't serve the exact same purpose.

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