Satya Nadella's first act may be to launch Office for iPad New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly about to reveal Office for the iPad. Invitations to an event at which Nadella will appear on March 27th have started to land on reporters' desks around the USA, and favoured outlets like the WSJ-refugee-founded Re|Code and Reuters appear to be receiving pre-event whispers to the …
While they probably make it worthwhile down at the bank, this poor bloke drinks from a poisoned chalice.
Gates (and Ballmer) both think Ballmer did a great job. That means Nadella won't be allowed to spread his wings properly or implement the serious changes Microsoft needs.
He certainly will not be allowed to "do a Jobs".
And what makes you think he would even be able to do a "jobs" when he's been working there for the last twenty years. If he didn't figure out what sort of refreshments they would be serving he deserves it. Quite frankly, the most I expect from Nadella is a slight course correction, certainly nothing big.
Anything different that he'll do will probably turn into a disaster. Sinofsky tried to do something different, didn't he?
They needed fresh blood, not a yes-man. Someone who's seen the world from outside Microsoft. Someone's who's actually used the fast amount of better products out there, and has been stung by Microsoft, like the rest of the world.
People that I know who've worked at Microsoft just turn into blithering pro-Microsoft campaigners.. trolling non-MS crap in forums. Brainwashing turns their high staff turn-over into a positive.
How about no? A new WinRT tablet maybe?
I'm thinking a Metro skin for iPad that keys into all of Microsoft's cloud suite. Office364 and Bing, IE and Outlook.com signin, XBox Live, DirectX and cloud hosted desktop all integrated into one glorious app that iFans have been craving [sic]. Naturally paid for to be preinstalled in glorious partnership with Apple.
The synergies. They are blinding.
Yes, people does. Only 1.46% of desktop users are Linux ones, and there are good chances they are also running an illegal XP in some VM... and it looks in China alone there are over hundreds of millions of cracked Windows installations (XP, mostly)
> Only 1.46% of desktop users are Linux ones, and there are good chances they are also running an illegal XP in some VM.
Guess I am one of those 1.46 percent except I only run a semi illegal Mac OS VM on my Linux Mac box (actually have a license for it but Apple licensing technically doesn't allow Mac OS X desktop in a VM I believe). Wine has gotten good enough for most people so that a windows vm is a total waste of time.
If Office is a full native local iOS application with almost all the features of the Windows counterpart, it's not a small announcement. If it's just a wrapper over the online services it is.
If they found Office alone was not enough to get user into Surfaces, why don't make money from Apple users? Apple could welcome that move as well, because it could impact Android tablet sales.
So, they're going to sell it for £15? Although, if it's gonna be as good as their MS Notes for ipad, they seriously shouldn't even bother. Quickoffice for ipad (now owned by Google), can open, edit and style retain all the latest MS Office formats (Word, Excel & Presentation), ten bucks - been using it for years, I don't need Office (tho' I suppose Outlook would be quite nice - but even there, the ipad email and calender utilities work as well as I need it).
I suppose it's going to be for companies who don't mind paying over the odds for ease of use.
Or maybe the could discover they could do more than watching cat videos and update the Facebook status...
Of all the things I wish I could do more with an iPad, I have to admit that editing Excel spreadsheets isn't one of them.
But if that's what floats your boat, who am I to judge? :)
Given his prior experience at Microsoft, I think future versions of Windows will be further integrated with the Cloud, Skydrive, Microsoft account, Bing desktop search, the Microsoft app store. More software products will follow a subscription model.
>>More software products will follow a subscription model.
>So they will look more like Apple software?
Didn't Apple give their last OS away for free basically? Apple loses money on their software (loss leader to sell the high margin hardware). The difference is Microsoft hardware is even bigger loss leader (joke as well) than Apple software with little chance to recoup the cost.
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