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Yawn. Given iPad for Office was started before Satya was CEO, Ballmer made serious bets on mobile (yes, the WP ecosystem, but something different for MSFT), AN
by jmspring 13y ago
Yawn. Given iPad for Office was started before Satya was CEO, Ballmer made serious bets on mobile (yes, the WP ecosystem, but something different for MSFT), AND Gates was on the board, discounting Ballmer and Gates at the start of the second paragraph is ... I'll say interesting, my gut says "dumb". Both Gates and Ballmer are on the board and were likely well aware of what's up and Gates gave up chairmanship to help Satya on technology issues.
I suspect parts of Redmond are still Windows uber alles, but, Microsoft has been doing non-Windows products for 30+ years.