> 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.
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)
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.
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 ;-)
