Boston, MA 07/11/2014 (wallstreetpr) – According to Crawford Del Prete, Chief Research Officer at IDC, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s CEO Satya Nadella is the right man for the job.
In a recent interview, Del Prete revisited the issue of a detailed and widely ambitious memo that Nadella recently sent to employees where the CEO pointed out major changes in the company and plans for the future.
The document, which has come to be known as a “Vision Memo” among experts, is “inspirational” and “bold” according to Del Prete. He noted that Nadella’s memo points the employees to the future and why the company needs to be more aggressive in its innovation.
The expert thinks Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is keen to unlock the value of its Office product, which he said has become the language of how people do things around the world.
All kind of devices
Talk about Office and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) appears keen to get the product on all kind of devices – those they manufacture and those manufactured by other companies like Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL). It is worth noting that the company is already offering Office for iPad, and the service is quickly gaining traction.
Del Prete said he is optimistic about Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) under Nadella. In fact, he said many people are excited about the company. As such, Nadella looks capable of turning around the company.
Boosting new products
As Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) looks to the future, the company is retiring aging products to boost the new ones. The same move has also been noted in Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO), which recently announced closing of old products.
Having retired Windows Xp, Microsoft has also said it will stop support for Windows 7. The move appears aimed at promoting Windows 8 whose adoption has remained low. Mainstream support for Window 7 is expected to end in January 2015.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is expected to make available a new version of OS known as Windows 9, which will take over from Windows 8 and 8.1 whose support is expected to end in 2018.
