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The author called out, specifically, how Azure was in his opinion keeping Microsoft relevant "Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azur
by alex- 10y ago
The author called out, specifically, how Azure was in his opinion keeping Microsoft relevant
"Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. While they’ll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance."
- Crespyl 10y ago> a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma What trauma-less release would this be?
- alex- 10y agoSatya Nadella was appointed as CEO on 4 February 2014. The last 2 windows releases were: Windows 10, released on the 29 July 2015 Windows 8.1, released on the 17 October 2013 So it is safe to assume that the author was referring to the Windows 10 release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_vers...
- gurkendoktor 10y ago> got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma I haven't been following the Windows world closely when Windows 7 was released - but wasn't that the least traumatic OS release in a long while?
- unscaled 10y agoWindows 7 was a 'tock' release to Vista's 'tick', so I can see why the author would not consider it major. Then again, Windows 10 was also probably a 'tock' release to Windows 8's tick (considering 8.1 was essentially a service pack).