MICROSOFT’S Head of snake oil, Satya Nadella, has given two very strong hints as to the company’s consumer direction for 2019.
Meeting journalists this week at his Redmond lair, he gave the strongest hint yet that Windows could gain a subscription offering, bundled with other Microsoft products such as Office 365 and Skype for a single fee.
“It’s very fair to say, as I said in the very beginning, that we started after all on the consumer side and then over-indexed to the IT side, and we definitely are very focused on bringing that back,” explains Nadella in a fairly incoherent-without-the-context explanation during which he cited Surface as a good example of commitment to punters, not just companies.
