These are the most important three chunks from Satya Nadella (Microsoft’s new CEO) memo:
Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation.
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Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.
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I believe over the next decade computing will become even more ubiquitous and intelligence will become ambient. The coevolution of software and new hardware form factors will intermediate and digitize — many of the things we do and experience in business, life and our world. This will be made possible by an ever-growing network of connected devices, incredible computing capacity from the cloud, insights from big data, and intelligence from machine learning.
Clearly, Microsoft’s new platforms are cloud, mobile, and the legacy “desktop,” or on-premises IT. It’s a good path, for sure, Microsoft just needs to get back it’s developer ecosystem magic (a vendor super-power it invented, mastered, and profited greatly from) to attract folks to build all the new, must-have applications on those platforms.
From a computer on every desktop to computers on everything, everywhere