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Except that change was already well under way long before the new CEO arrived ;-)

• NicoJuicy 12y ago
  They didn't went all in ( Office = milk cow), they did a huge shift now with Satya Nadella. That is a fundemental change vs. a change from the inside ( before it was pushed because some people grasped the concept and they were allowed to try it out)
  • nailer 12y ago
    Yeah it was shortly after Satya taking over that MS Office for iPad was released. They'd obviously had the code there, but the authority to actually get it out seemed to be lacking.
    • blumkvist 12y ago
      No, they just needed the new face to kick things off, so everybody can attribute the change and believe. EEE. Watch and learn. This is why Microsoft will never die, no matter how hard some people's wishful thinking.
      • scholia 12y ago
        Sad but true. Ballmer could have done the same things but wouldn't have got the same response. It generally takes Microsoft years to do things. Anyone who doesn't realize all this stuff was already a long way down the pipeline needs hitting with a cluestick ;-)
• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Except that change was already well under way long before the new CEO arrived Nadella didn't emerge out of nowhere, he was already an executive at Microsoft and was driving many of the kinds of changes that have accelerated since he became CEO even before becoming CEO.