Microsoft held its most compelling Windows’ event in years, because Windows is no longer the center of the company.
Yesterday, though, a whole host of various threads that Microsoft has been working on for years suddenly came together in one of the most compelling events I’ve attended in a long time. Windows, of all things, suddenly feels revitalized, and Microsoft has both made and fostered hardware that feels meaningfully differentiated from other devices on the market. It is, in many respects, the physical manifestation of CEO Satya Nadella’s greatest triumph.