Dive Summary:
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is putting the company through its largest reorganization ever, but he offered few specific clues about what that might mean for the company's customers in education.
- One change already in the works will likely gain steam: Packaged software is out; instead, software in the cloud will deliver applications anywhere on any device.
- A focus on collaboration and coordination means the company's products will work more closely together than ever; expect lots of cross-platform and cross-application solutions.
From the article:
With an emphasis on monthly subscriptions, the software refresh cycles that often dominated the annual IT budget for schools will disappear. ... "You won't be making a decision about operating systems. You won't make a decision to move from Windows 7 to Windows 8 to Windows 9. That experience will be happening incrementally." ...