Manjoo wonders if the fragmentation of computing devices at the end of the central role of desktop devices due to the disruption of smart phones will be the state of affairs going forward. He thinks Satya Nadella is acting as if that’s likely, or at least any alternative is impossible to predict.
What if the future of computing is chaos? We’ll have smartphones and then a dizzying array of desktops, laptops, tablets and hybrid devices — and different people, for different reasons, will choose different sets of each.
Microsoft’s devices — and in a larger sense, Mr. Nadella’s strategy — anticipate such chaos. For much of its history, Microsoft was mainly a software company. It made Windows, the operating system that became the lingua franca of the PC era, and it made Office, the software that made those Windows machines useful to businesses.
I think that we will remain in this unresolved mess until augmented reality becomes commonplace, and disrupts everything again.
from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/131640321382
