USA TODAY: Satya Nadella’s mandate for Windows 10 is clear.
This will not be just another release of the company’s venerable operating system, the Microsoft CEO maintains. Windows 10 represents “a new generation of Windows … built for this era of more personal computing.”
That’s the unmistakable message that came through loud and clear in a nearly three hour keynote event at the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco that also hit on the company’s ambitions for cloud computing and its major push to turn Office into a platform with partners ranging from Uber to LinkedIn.
As a conference targeted to developers, Nadella and his minions pushed hard on the notion of “universal” Windows 10 apps that work across a whole slew of devices and things: phones, tablets, Internet of Things appliances, holographic experiences that materialize out of thin air — and yes, of course, traditional PCs, too.