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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: 2) by Teckla on Sunday April 01 2018, @11:56AM

    by Teckla (3812) on Sunday April 01 2018, @11:56AM (#661115)

    In other words, MS has figured out that most people with PCs really are better served, for what stupid petty BS they do, by a walled-garden cell phone.

    Stupid petty BS? That seems pretty harshly judgmental...

    There's little money to be made in the consumer market as it is now, so they want to follow the trend (I am calling this now: Windows As A Service a la Office 365...) and shift to more profitable ways of doing business.

    People have been "calling" Windows-as-a-service for years now. This is nothing new...

    The much-ballyhooed Year of the Linux Desktop may, therefore, be sometime in the early 2020s, although by then I would think many people would have ditched general purpose computers for phones and tablets.

    Chromebooks run Linux and could be considered a desktop (especially as more and more of them are capable of running Android applications). They're crazy popular at elementary, middle, and high schools. So perhaps Linux-on-the-desktop is already here, and gaining momentum.

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